> > Daniel Burrows the maintainer of aptitude is a member of this list. > Perhaps he might find some time to respond. I did look into the same > question a while back. I believe what it comes down to is the lower the > score of the solution the better. Although I could be wrong about that. > I took just a minute to see if I could remember where exactly I read about > it. I'm fairly sure it was the aptitude user's manual written by Daniel. > http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/index.html<http://algebraicthunk.net/%7Edburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/index.html> > > Hope this helps. And if you do find the answer, please come back and let > us all know. > > > - -- > Daryl Styrk > Naples, FL USA
Thanks for the information. I thought that the exact sequence of my commands might give some insight on the subject, until I get the time to fully research that link. I wanted to install the ordinary compiz config settings manager (and I was ashamed to admit it before), so: ja...@debian:~/DI/Syspro/project2$ sudo aptitude install compizconfig-settings-manager [sudo] password for jason: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages are BROKEN: compiz-core The following NEW packages will be installed: compizconfig-settings-manager libcompizconfig0{a} python-compizconfig{a} 0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 738kB of archives. After unpacking 4497kB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: compiz-core: Breaks: libcompizconfig0 (< 0.8.0) but 0.7.6-1 is to be installed. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Install the following packages: libcompizconfig0 [0.8.2-2 (unstable)] // Seeing that a package from the 'unstable' distribution were needed, I thought I'd better examine another solution first libprotobuf3 [2.0.3-2 (testing, unstable)] Score is 9 // Note the score Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: compiz-gnome compiz-gtk Downgrade the following packages: compiz-core [0.8.2-6 (testing, unstable, now) -> 0.7.6-7 (stable)] compiz-plugins [0.8.2-6 (testing, unstable, now) -> 0.7.6-7 (stable)] Score is -232 // This time the "x" value is way lower than the previous, this could be because the removal of some packages as well as the downgrading of others (a rather troublesome procedure) was suggested Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies. Abort. And that is that Jason