Can somebody please explain this?
# sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
# sudo apt-get -u upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
# sudo aptitude -P upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information... Done
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.
# sudo aptitude -P dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
communicator-smotif-477 libdvbpsi1 libgd1-noxpm libruby libxslt1 t1lib1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
communicator communicator-base-477 communicator-smotif-477 freetype2 gwm
ldso libasn1-6-heimdal libbz2 libc-client2001 libdns8 libdvbpsi1 libecpg3
libelfg0 libepplet0 libevas0 libfltk1 libgc6 libgd1 libgd1-noxpm libgd2
libgdk-pixbuf2 libgmp2 libgnutls5 libhdf4g libisc4 libncurses4 libnetpbm9
libopencdk4 libopenldap-runtime libopenldap1 libpcap0 libpgsql2 libpng3
libproplist0 libqt2 libruby libscrollkeeper0 libservlet2.3-java
libsigc++0 libsnmp4.2 libstdc++2.10 libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 libstringlist0
libungif3g libwmf0.2-2 libxaw6 libxmltok1 libxslt1 netscape
netscape-base-4 netscape-base-477 perl-5.005-base perl-5.005-doc
perl-5.005-suid perl-5.6 t1lib1 vflib2 xlib6g xlibmesa-dev xlibmesa3
xlibosmesa3 xlibs-dev xmhtml1
0 packages upgraded, 63 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8078kB/15.7MB of archives. After unpacking 41.4MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.
Notice this:
# dpkg -l '*communicator*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
pn communicator <none> (no description available)
pn communicator-b <none> (no description available)
pn communicator-b <none> (no description available)
un communicator-b <none> (no description available)
pn communicator-n <none> (no description available)
pn communicator-n <none> (no description available)
pn communicator-n <none> (no description available)
pn communicator-s <none> (no description available)
pn communicator-s <none> (no description available)
pn communicator-s <none> (no description available)
pn communicator-s <none> (no description available)
pn communicator-s <none> (no description available)
pn communicator-s <none> (no description available)
In fact, I do not know what any of those NEW packages to be installed
are about. Do you?
I know that this system has been upgraded since slink, and -- at one
time -- I did have installed netscape* and communicator*; but, clearly
these are all purged.
What is this about?
How can I correct this, so using aptitude on this box is less dangerous?
What do you think?
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