Upgrade all kept back packages

2013-11-10 Thread Beco
Hi guys/gals, I tried to upgrade one of my systems, and it kept back some packages. As I want to upgrade all, I did the following: # apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back:

Re: Upgrade all kept back packages

2013-11-10 Thread Beco
On 10 November 2013 14:05, Beco r...@beco.cc wrote: And here I tried remove again the previous command, with the same result: apt-get wants to remove and strip naked my system. How can I eliminate the message The following packages have been kept back: mplayer transcode vlc vlc-nox

Re: Upgrade all kept back packages

2013-11-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I would restore the install from a backup and then run apt-get dist-upgrade instead of apt-get upgrade. If you don't have a backup, then backup your Debian now and try a dist-upgrade, perhaps with the option -s, --simulate, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon, --no-act for a dry run. -- To

Re: Upgrade all kept back packages

2013-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Beco wrote: I tried to upgrade one of my systems, and it kept back some packages. As I want to upgrade all, I did the following: Since these are many multimedia packages and many mentions of ffmpeg I think it likely that you have mixed sources. Did you install those from Merillat's archive?

Re: Upgrade all kept back packages

2013-11-10 Thread Beco
On 10 November 2013 14:21, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: I would restore the install from a backup and then run apt-get dist-upgrade instead of apt-get upgrade. If you don't have a backup, then backup your Debian now and try a dist-upgrade, perhaps with the option -s,

Re: Upgrade all kept back packages

2013-11-10 Thread Beco
Hi Bob, On 10 November 2013 14:26, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: First verify your sources.list file. I didn't see where you said what version of Debian you were using. Stable Wheezy, Testing Jessie, or Unstable Sid. Whatever. Make sure it is consistent. Then: # apt-get install

Re: Upgrade all kept back packages

2013-11-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 03:05:34PM -0200, Beco wrote: Hi guys/gals, I tried to upgrade one of my systems, and it kept back some packages. As I want to upgrade all, I did the following: # apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state

Re: Upgrade all kept back packages

2013-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Beco wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: First verify your sources.list file. I didn't see where you said what version of Debian you were using. Stable Wheezy, Testing Jessie, or Unstable Sid. Whatever. Make sure it is consistent. I should have asked, can you post your sources.list file? I see

Re: Upgrade all kept back packages

2013-11-10 Thread Beco
On 10 November 2013 16:17, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Beco wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Make sense? Hopefully. Good luck! Please report back on your progress so that we (I!) can learn from it! Bob Okey Bob! Thanks a lot. You gave me a LOT of food for thought now. I'll try some

Re: Upgrade all kept back packages

2013-11-10 Thread Beco
On 10 November 2013 17:06, Beco r...@beco.cc wrote: On 10 November 2013 16:17, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Im removing all that does not comply with the Debian packages. But still, I'm having trouble trying to remove specific packages that insist that I need to get rid of KDE or other

Re: Upgrade all kept back packages

2013-11-10 Thread Beco
On 10 November 2013 15:39, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: find all packages from deb-multimedia.org: aptitude search '~i ?origin(Unofficial Multimedia Packages)' purge all packages from deb-multimedia.org: aptitude purge '~i ?origin(Unofficial Multimedia Packages)' Hi Rob, Maybe I'm

Re: Upgrade all kept back packages

2013-11-10 Thread Beco
On 10 November 2013 16:17, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Beco wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: First verify your sources.list file. I didn't see where you said what version of Debian you were using. Stable Wheezy, Testing Jessie, or Unstable Sid. Whatever. Make sure it is consistent. I

Re: Upgrade all kept back packages

2013-11-10 Thread Beco
On 10 November 2013 18:14, Beco r...@beco.cc wrote: Now, guys, how come KDE and KDEBASE does not have archive candidates? Where are they? Thanks, Beco. It seems KDE is just a dummy package. Is the correct package kde-full? # apt-cache policy kde-full kde-full: Installed: 5:77+deb7u1

Re: Upgrade all kept back packages

2013-11-10 Thread Beco
Hi guys, Just to report back: To remove kdebase dummy, first: # apt-get install kde-plasma-desktop And to remove kde dummy, first: # apt-get install kde-full Then just remove kde and kdebase. Now: # apt-show-versions | grep -v uptodate epson-inkjet-printer-201215w 1.0.0-1lsb3.2 installed: No

Re: Upgrade all kept back packages

2013-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Beco wrote: Just to report back: Good stuff! Looks like you are in good shape now. I think I got. I needed to downgrade everything in the same command line. Look: # apt-get install vlc-data=2.0.3-5 libmp3lame0=3.99.5+repack1-3 Yes, that will do it. If you can determine all of the versions