I tried using aptitude in interactive more to do a routine update and upgrade. It complains that there are broken packages and when I ask to examine the situation it starts trying to resolve stuff and counts opwn, closed, etc. conflicts. It continues to go on doing this seemingly forever.
So I abort this and try to investigate. Suddenly I start aptitiude in interactive mode and discover there are a *huge* number of packages it's planning to install which are currently not installed. I have no idea where all this has come from. I certainly never wanted them. I didn't count, but there are hundreds, possiby thousands of them. Many of these packages are broken and uninstalled. And it also tells me there are about 150 broken packages. Asking it yo delete uninstalled broken packages one by one seems to have little effect on this counter. Are these the installed broken packages? or does it somehow include the uninstalled ones too? Among the packages it thinks I want to install is systemd-dbg! It of course is broken because there's no systemd. And there are also a lot of gnome packages. I certainly never wanted it to install gnome. I use fvwm. Is there any way to restore this system to a sane state? Or even figure out what went wrong? -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
