I'm trying to crossgrade a bullseye system (from i386 to amd64). The
machine is headless (with no graphical display and it's also difficult
to access a console), so I'm doing it over ssh.
In preparation I've switched from systemd to sysvinit (due to the
warning on the crossgrade page), and also installed busybox-static:amd64
and have a "busybox ash" shell running (in case of trouble).
I'm following https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading, but at the step:
Crossgrade `dpkg` `tar` and `apt`
I get:
#apt --download-only install dpkg:amd64 tar:amd64 apt:amd64
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
apt : Conflicts: apt:amd64 but 2.6.1 is to be installed
apt:amd64 : Conflicts: apt but 2.6.1 is to be installed
dpkg : Conflicts: dpkg:amd64
dpkg:amd64 : Conflicts: dpkg
tar : Conflicts: tar:amd64
tar:amd64 : Conflicts: tar
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be
caused by held packages.
It seems like perhaps the bookworm version of apt has some extra
restrictions about installing other arch binary packages, and won't even
download them for me. This is pretty inconvenient.
Does anyone know any force- or allow- that will persuade apt or apt-get
to do this? I tried --allow-remove-essential. No luck.
I'll continue using wget, dpkg and manual dependency resolution. Maybe
someone has some clues for me?
Thanks,
Alex
