-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/06/09 19:44, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: >> On 2009-05-06 16:40 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: >> >>> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:02:57AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman >>> <pwise...@gmail.com> was heard to say: >>>> I did my daily testing update this morning, and aptitude has >>>> disappeared. Attempts to apt-get install aptitude are so far >>>> unsuccessful, because of unmet dependencies. Attempts to install >>>> those missing dependencies also fail, in particular the following: >>>> >>>> # apt-get install libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6-4.6 >>> Which testing mirror are you using? That version of apt should be in >>> testing. >> Alas, there has been an upload of apt to testing-security which broke >> things, because that version of apt provides libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.6 >> instead. I've informed the testing security team about the situation, >> CC'ing bug #448249 which is responsible for this. >> >> 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). > > 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. > > Patrick > >
IMHO, it looks as though you need to downgrade apt-utils. I may be wrong, but it looks as though you need an older version of apt-utils that corresponds with the version of libapt-pkg. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C++++ UL++++ P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI D---- G e* h! !r y? - ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkoB3rUACgkQ1kZz3mRu0Gp3zwCcC7x1m7d9PY3DQ1OiN5A3qhON 8sMAoMVB2juix7Y9m3ukBm4AIxOQ7v87 =ya2r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org