Recently I was updating my Debian Testing (Currently Wheezy) laptop. After updating the local packages with aptitude update to update the local lists I found that there where 404 updates available for my system. Issuing the aptitude dist-upgrade command brought up a list of the packages that would be installed, a couple of broken dependencies, and a list of the packages that would be removed including my window manager.
The primary dependency breaker => mysql-common : Breaks: mysql-server-core-5.1 (< 5.5) but 5.1.62-1 is to be installed. mysql-common requires a minimum version of mysql-server-core of v5.5. Looking at the software installed on my laptop I have root@d9300:/home/joseph# dpkg -l | grep mysql-server ii mysql-server-core-5.1 5.1.61-3 MySQL database server binaries Looking at the software available I have available root@d9300:/home/joseph# apt-cache search mysql-server auth2db - Powerful and eye-candy IDS logger, log viewer and alert generator mysql-server-5.1 - MySQL database server binaries and system database setup mysql-server-core-5.1 - MySQL database server binaries mysql-server - MySQL database server (metapackage depending on the latest version) mysql-server-5.5 - MySQL database server binaries and system database setup mysql-server-core-5.5 - MySQL database server binaries torrentflux - web based, feature-rich BitTorrent download manager I issue the command to upgrade mysql-server-core and resolve the primary blocker # aptitude install mysql-server-core-5.5 dpkg: mysql-server-core-5.1: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested: akonadi-backend-mysql depends on mysql-server-core; however: Package mysql-server-core is not installed. Package mysql-server-core-5.1 which provides mysql-server-core is to be removed. I was able to download and install all pending updates and keep my window manager! Hope this helps someone. Joseph Hume F1 for HELP _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
