On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Sven Joachim <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I guess I should have figured that out!! Thanks - that worked - I have aptitude back, and apt and apt-utils are on hold, as you recommend. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
