On 2009-05-06 20:44 +0200, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Sven Joachim <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Everyone suffering from this bug should downgrade apt to 0.7.20.2 or, >> even better, 0.7.20.2+lenny1 from stable-security. Then aptitude, >> synaptic and other reverse dependencies of libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6-4.6 can >> be reinstalled. > > Tried that, but after downgrading, 'apt-get install aptitude' returns: > > # apt-get install aptitude > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > apt-utils: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.6 > aptitude: Depends: libept0 (>= 0.5.26) but it is not going to be installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or > specify a solution).
Yes, you need to downgrade apt-utils as well. And libapt-pkg-dev, if it is installed. > In other words, apt-utils needs the apt version supplied by the latest > apt package! (I'm on an amd64 system, which may be the difference.) > And 'apt-get -f install' just wants to re-upgrade the apt package I > just downgraded. After the downgrade, put apt and apt-utils on hold to keep them from being upgraded again. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
