Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-12 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 09:02:45AM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 11 dec 21, 14:44:42, A. F. Cano wrote: > > > > After many iterations of installing, autoremoving, updating and > > upgrading, some packages were installed along with their dependencies, > > but I'm also getting: > > > > E;

Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 11 dec 21, 14:44:42, A. F. Cano wrote: > > After many iterations of installing, autoremoving, updating and > upgrading, some packages were installed along with their dependencies, > but I'm also getting: > > E; Packae '' has no installation candidate > > or is alerady the newest version

Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-11 Thread A. F. Cano
ng got really messed up during the upgrade. There are broken > > > > dependencies and some packages (like some vim addon) don't work at all. > > > > Vim, for instance is unusable. > > > > > > > > I have tried all the dpkg/apt/apt-get commands to f

Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
ies and some packages (like some vim addon) don't work at all. > > > Vim, for instance is unusable. > > > > > > I have tried all the dpkg/apt/apt-get commands to fix broken dependencies, > > > broken packages, etc, and they all return without error now [1], but

Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-09 Thread A. F. Cano
> > Vim, for instance is unusable. > > > > I have tried all the dpkg/apt/apt-get commands to fix broken dependencies, > > broken packages, etc, and they all return without error now [1], but > > aptitude > > starts "resolving dependencies" and it soon uses up al

Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
ands to fix broken dependencies, > broken packages, etc, and they all return without error now [1], but aptitude > starts "resolving dependencies" and it soon uses up all the available RAM, > then all the available swap and the system slows down (thrashing) and then > freezes. D

Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-06 Thread songbird
A. F. Cano wrote: > > Something got really messed up during the upgrade. There are broken > dependencies and some packages (like some vim addon) don't work at all. > Vim, for instance is unusable. > > I have tried all the dpkg/apt/apt-get commands to fix broken dependencies,

After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-05 Thread A. F. Cano
Something got really messed up during the upgrade. There are broken dependencies and some packages (like some vim addon) don't work at all. Vim, for instance is unusable. I have tried all the dpkg/apt/apt-get commands to fix broken dependencies, broken packages, etc, and they all return

Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-06 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 20:31:49 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 22:36:48 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 16:17:22 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Friday, October 05, 2018 03:40:09 PM Brian wrote: > > > > > I've lost track. Are you using dist-upgrade on

Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-06 Thread Curt
On 2018-10-05, Brian wrote: >> I'm not the OP, but the place where I plan to use (apt-get) upgrade and not >> dist-upgrade is Jessie (Debian 8). > > Debian 8 is obsolete; it doesn't even receive security updates. > dist-upgrade is most unlikely to bring it to its knees. > I've never used

Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-05 Thread David Wright
On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 22:36:48 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 16:17:22 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Friday, October 05, 2018 03:40:09 PM Brian wrote: > > > I've lost track. Are you using dist-upgrade on stable or unstable? > > > > I'm not the OP, but the place where I

Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 16:17:22 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, October 05, 2018 03:40:09 PM Brian wrote: > > On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 11:03:31 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I'm not sure I know enough to re-phrase the question. I'm also surprised > > > / confused to see the

Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-05 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, October 05, 2018 03:40:09 PM Brian wrote: > On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 11:03:31 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm not sure I know enough to re-phrase the question. I'm also surprised > > / confused to see the two tags: "Essential: yes" and "Priority: > > required" -- I presume that

Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 11:03:31 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm not sure I know enough to re-phrase the question. I'm also surprised / > confused to see the two tags: "Essential: yes" and "Priority: required" -- I > presume that is not redundant information, but at first glance it

Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-05 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, October 05, 2018 07:25:29 AM Reco wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 07:03:13AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Can someone describe (or point to) a description of how dist-upgrade > > determines the more important app? (Oh, I'm guessing it has to do with > > the whatever it is

Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-05 Thread Joe
On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 04:57:36 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > > Can someone point me to a discussion of why one would chose a > particular option? > The important difference is that 'upgrade' (aptitude safe-upgrade) will not remove a package without replacing it with a more up-to-date version of

Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-05 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 07:03:13AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, October 05, 2018 06:06:25 AM Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 04:57:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > Can someone point me to a discussion of why one would chose a particular > > > option?

Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-05 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 05:51:09AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I'm not comfortable with anything other than "stable". > > > When moving from one release to the next my custom is to purchase a DVD > > > set and do a complete fresh install. > > > > > > However, I *am* several

Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-05 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, October 05, 2018 06:06:25 AM Reco wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 04:57:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Can someone point me to a discussion of why one would chose a particular > > option? > > Why do you need a discussion of that if you have apt-get(8)? > > upgrade is used to

Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/05/2018 05:06 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 04:57:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 10/04/2018 11:10 PM, mick crane wrote: On 2018-10-04 18:27, Glenn English wrote: On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:06 PM Richard Owlett wrote: Just did a fresh install to another

Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-05 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 04:57:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/04/2018 11:10 PM, mick crane wrote: > > On 2018-10-04 18:27, Glenn English wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:06 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > > Just did a fresh install to another partition of the

Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/04/2018 11:10 PM, mick crane wrote: On 2018-10-04 18:27, Glenn English wrote: On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:06 PM Richard Owlett wrote: Just did a fresh install to another partition of the machine on which I observed the current problem. Installation was from DVD 1 of Debian 9.1.0 Again

Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-04 Thread mick crane
On 2018-10-04 18:27, Glenn English wrote: On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:06 PM Richard Owlett wrote: Just did a fresh install to another partition of the machine on which I observed the current problem. Installation was from DVD 1 of Debian 9.1.0 Again LibreOffice Writer would not launch.

Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 10/4/18, Glenn English wrote: > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:06 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > >> Just did a fresh install to another partition of the machine on which I >> observed the current problem. >> Installation was from DVD 1 of Debian 9.1.0 >> >> Again LibreOffice Writer would not launch. >>

Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-04 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:06 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > Just did a fresh install to another partition of the machine on which I > observed the current problem. > Installation was from DVD 1 of Debian 9.1.0 > > Again LibreOffice Writer would not launch. > Attempted complete removal. This time the

More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

2018-10-04 Thread Richard Owlett
   MATE's application menu. 2. I later found a flash drive to which I had installed Debian 8.    The .doc file opened properly there. Tried to do a complete removal with intention of doing a re-install. Tried to do the re-install receiving a "fix broken packages" response. Mind sending the

Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages

2018-10-04 Thread Richard Owlett
drive to which I had installed Debian 8. The .doc file opened properly there. Tried to do a complete removal with intention of doing a re-install. Tried to do the re-install receiving a "fix broken packages" response. Mind sending the package(s) that're causing the conflict? Murp

Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages

2018-10-04 Thread songbird
Dan Purgert wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: >> I received an email with an attachment in .doc format. >> I clicked to open with default program - LibreOffice Writer. >> All I got was a brief display of the LibreOffice flash screen. >> I tried to open from MATE's Application menu - failed likewise.

Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages

2018-10-03 Thread Dan Purgert
hat the *doc wasn't broken-by-design (i.e. one of the various types of malware that tend to use *doc files, etc.)? > > Tried to do a complete removal with intention of doing a re-install. > Tried to do the re-install receiving a "fix broken packages" response. Mind sending

Synaptic fails to fix broken packages

2018-10-03 Thread Richard Owlett
of doing a re-install. Tried to do the re-install receiving a "fix broken packages" response. Got a failure message: E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. E: Unable

Re: Can't fix broken packages. Uninstalled packages require many removals to reinstall

2016-03-31 Thread Johann Spies
I try to install something from synaptic, it says > "you have held broken packages" > but "apt-mark showhold" and "dpkg --get-selections | grep hold" > don't show any result. > > > I've tried then to reinstall each of them using aptitude. > Starting wit

Can't fix broken packages. Uninstalled packages require many removals to reinstall

2016-03-30 Thread Gabriel Almeida
nstall vlc deinstall vlc-nox deinstall when I try to install something from synaptic, it says "you have held broken packages" but "apt-mark showhold" and "dpkg --get-selections | grep hold&q

Re: overcoming apt's resistance to broken packages

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:29:51PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: I agree with Josh Triplett that autodetection looking only for 'ati' rather than for the individual modules which 'ati' can implicitly load is a bug that should be fixed. (The point of doing so - questioned in the last comment on

Re: overcoming apt's resistance to broken packages

2014-06-28 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/28/2014 05:57 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:29:51PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: I agree with Josh Triplett that autodetection looking only for 'ati' rather than for the individual modules which 'ati' can

overcoming apt's resistance to broken packages

2014-06-27 Thread Mike McClain
I don't need xserver-xorg-video-mach64 or xserver-xorg-video-r128 to run X on my machine but xserver-xorg-video-radeon comes bundled with them and xserver-xorg-video-ati. A little experimentation established that X works fine without xserver-xorg-video-{mach64,r128} but apt-get complains about

Re: overcoming apt's resistance to broken packages

2014-06-27 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:31:38 -0700 Mike McClain mike.j...@nethere.com wrote: I don't need xserver-xorg-video-mach64 or xserver-xorg-video-r128 to run X on my machine but xserver-xorg-video-radeon comes bundled with them and xserver-xorg-video-ati. AFAI see, …ati is a dependency pkg that

Re: overcoming apt's resistance to broken packages

2014-06-27 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/27/2014 03:31 PM, Mike McClain wrote: I don't need xserver-xorg-video-mach64 or xserver-xorg-video-r128 to run X on my machine but xserver-xorg-video-radeon comes bundled with them and xserver-xorg-video-ati. What do you mean by comes

Re: overcoming apt's resistance to broken packages

2014-06-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-27 21:58 +0200, The Wanderer wrote: On 06/27/2014 03:31 PM, Mike McClain wrote: I don't need xserver-xorg-video-mach64 or xserver-xorg-video-r128 to run X on my machine but xserver-xorg-video-radeon comes bundled with them and xserver-xorg-video-ati. What do you mean by comes

Re: overcoming apt's resistance to broken packages

2014-06-27 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/27/2014 04:17 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-06-27 21:58 +0200, The Wanderer wrote: On 06/27/2014 03:31 PM, Mike McClain wrote: I don't need xserver-xorg-video-mach64 or xserver-xorg-video-r128 to run X on my machine but

Re: Broken packages............

2011-10-29 Thread Arno Schuring
Charlie (aries...@skymesh.com.au on 2011-10-30 00:12 +1100): On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:01:16 +0200 Arno Schuring aelschur...@hotmail.com suggested this: DMO? Sorry, silly question, but. what is DMO? Have been googling it and not getting anywhere, and it's late, or early. Sorry,

Re: Broken packages............

2011-10-29 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:32:32 -0400 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com suggested this: On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au wrote:  On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:01:16 +0200 Arno Schuring DMO? Sorry, silly question, but. what is DMO? Have been googling it and not

Re: Broken packages............

2011-10-29 Thread Arno Schuring
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au wrote:  On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:25:18 +0200 Arno Schuring  aelschur...@hotmail.com suggested this: Charlie (aries...@skymesh.com.au on 2011-10-27 16:35 +1100): libavcodec52:   Depends: libavutil50 (4:0.6.2-99) but

Re: Broken packages............

2011-10-29 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:01:16 +0200 Arno Schuring aelschur...@hotmail.com suggested this: DMO? Sorry, silly question, but. what is DMO? Have been googling it and not getting anywhere, and it's late, or early. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524

Re: Broken packages............

2011-10-29 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au wrote:  On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:01:16 +0200 Arno Schuring DMO? Sorry, silly question, but. what is DMO? Have been googling it and not getting anywhere, and it's late, or early. http://debian-multimedia.org/ -- To

Re: Broken packages............

2011-10-28 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au wrote:  On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:25:18 +0200 Arno Schuring  aelschur...@hotmail.com suggested this: Charlie (aries...@skymesh.com.au on 2011-10-27 16:35 +1100): libavcodec52:   Depends: libavutil50 (4:0.6.2-99) but 5:0.7.1-0.1 is

Re: Broken packages............

2011-10-27 Thread Arno Schuring
Charlie (aries...@skymesh.com.au on 2011-10-27 16:35 +1100): libavcodec52: Depends: libavutil50 (4:0.6.2-99) but 5:0.7.1-0.1 is to be installed or libavutil-extra-50 (4:0.6.2-99) but it is not installable Do you have debian-multimedia in your sources.list by any chance? Or have had it?

Re: Broken packages............

2011-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au writes: You have libavdevice52 installed and held at version 5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2 which is too old. See your held packages with aptitude search ~ahold. Try removing your hold with aptitude unhold libavdevice52 and then try reinstalling xvidcap. Looking like I

Re: Broken packages............

2011-10-27 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:25:18 +0200 Arno Schuring aelschur...@hotmail.com suggested this: Charlie (aries...@skymesh.com.au on 2011-10-27 16:35 +1100): libavcodec52: Depends: libavutil50 (4:0.6.2-99) but 5:0.7.1-0.1 is to be installed or libavutil-extra-50 (4:0.6.2-99) but it is not

Re: Broken packages............

2011-10-27 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:09:14 -0500 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com suggested this: Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au writes: You have libavdevice52 installed and held at version 5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2 which is too old. See your held packages with aptitude search ~ahold. Try removing your hold

Broken packages............

2011-10-26 Thread Charlie
[Not Installed] Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] So I attempt the install it through synaptic and get this: Could not apply changes! Fix broken packages first. So try with synaptic to fix the broken packages and get this: E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken

Re: Broken packages............

2011-10-26 Thread Charlie
broken packages first. So try with synaptic to fix the broken packages and get this: E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. E: Unable to correct dependencies E: Error

Re: Sid broken packages

2009-12-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Aptitude claims that gvfs, libempathy-gtk28, libempathy30, and openjdk-6-jre-lib are broken in Sid. I understand normal Sid churn but these have been broken for a couple of weeks. Are they not really broken, just (e.g.) being replaced by something else with a different name? Anybody

Re: Sid broken packages

2009-12-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-12-23 19:41 +0100, Rick Thomas wrote: Aptitude claims that gvfs, libempathy-gtk28, libempathy30, and openjdk-6-jre-lib are broken in Sid. I understand normal Sid churn but these have been broken for a couple of weeks. Are they not really broken, just (e.g.) being replaced by

Re: Sid broken packages

2009-12-23 Thread Joe
Rick Thomas wrote: Aptitude claims that gvfs, libempathy-gtk28, libempathy30, and openjdk-6-jre-lib are broken in Sid. I understand normal Sid churn but these have been broken for a couple of weeks. Are they not really broken, just (e.g.) being replaced by something else with a

broken packages

2009-10-27 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I tried to install a deb package from a website, it only parcially installed, and now won't remove. I've even tried using the --force option, it just says I should try reinstalling, but when I do that I get errors with installations. So how do I remove this package from my system? Because

Re: broken packages

2009-10-27 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I tried to install a deb package from a website, it only parcially installed, and now won't remove. I've even tried using the --force option, it just says I should try reinstalling, but when I do that I get errors with installations. So how do I remove this package

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade in sid has several broken packages

2009-10-09 Thread JF Pirl
Hello, You might as well do a simple aptitude install epiphany-browser (if my memory doesn't fail, it will warn you about the fact that epiphany-gecko - and possibly epiphany-extensions-more - will have to be removed, which is no problem as they are now obsolete). By the way, is the graphical

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade in sid has several broken packages

2009-10-09 Thread Tim Tebbit
JF Pirl wrote: 8 By the way, is the graphical ugliness of some days ago in Sid solved now? (when logging in, GTK/the gnome-panels seemed to be broken or something, and some panel applets did not want to work, as well as no direct shutdown possibilities in the gdm session - I switched

aptitude safe-upgrade in sid has several broken packages

2009-10-08 Thread Rick Thomas
I understand normal sid churn, but usually a problem like this is fixed in a couple of days. These packages have been broken for well over a week.So I thought I'd bring the problem to a larger audience, in hopes that somebody who knows more than I do could give it some attention.

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade in sid has several broken packages

2009-10-08 Thread Tomek Kruszona
Rick Thomas wrote: The following packages are BROKEN: epiphany-browser epiphany-extensions-more libgnokii4 python-qt4 Hello! Regarding epiphany: It seems has something in common with epiphany gecko to webkit transition. Try installing epiphany-webkit. It should remove obsolete packages

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade in sid has several broken packages

2009-10-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 8, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Tomek Kruszona wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: The following packages are BROKEN: epiphany-browser epiphany-extensions-more libgnokii4 python-qt4 Hello! Regarding epiphany: It seems has something in common with epiphany gecko to webkit transition. Try installing

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade in sid has several broken packages

2009-10-08 Thread Tomek Kruszona
Rick Thomas wrote: Thanks for the suggestion... But I think there's something I don't understand... From the package descriptions, it sounds like the epiphany folks are headed in the direction of epiphany-browser and away from epiphany-webkit. Wouldn't installing epiphany-webkit be a step

aptitude: recall broken packages

2007-02-19 Thread H.S.
such thing. In any case, since then aptitude thinks no packages are broken. I was wondering, now that I am a bit more comfortable with aptitude, how do I make it recall that list of broken packages? I wouldn't starting aptitude all over again (removing and reinstalling?), if I knew the best way to do

Re: aptitude: recall broken packages

2007-02-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
' about those packages and to clear the cache or some such thing. In any case, since then aptitude thinks no packages are broken. I was wondering, now that I am a bit more comfortable with aptitude, how do I make it recall that list of broken packages? I wouldn't starting aptitude all over

Re: aptitude: recall broken packages

2007-02-19 Thread Clive Menzies
you can try aptitude upgrade, aptitude dist-upgrade or U + g in interactive mode. (Remember: aptitude keep-all is your friend when things get scary.) To find out if you currently have any broken packages on your system you can run aptitude search '~b' Thanks Florian This is very useful

Re: aptitude: recall broken packages

2007-02-19 Thread H.S.
, aptitude dist-upgrade or U + g in interactive mode. (Remember: aptitude keep-all is your friend when things get scary.) To find out if you currently have any broken packages on your system you can run aptitude search '~b' I guess that explains it. Thanks a ton for taking the time to explain all

Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-08-16 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-06-28 02:11:51, schrieb Bill Jones: On 6/27/06, Chase James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'm trying to upgrade a debian woody box to sarge according to the release notes. When attempting to install aptitude, I get the following error: # apt-get install aptitude Wierdness...

apt ile program güncelleme hatası Broken packages

2006-08-13 Thread T. Alp Ozkan
: libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.8.0) but 2.6.4-3.1 is to be installed Depends: libxfixes3 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxinerama1 but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages Sistemi dist-upgrade yaptığımda problem çıkarmadan testing'e güncellenebiliyor. Eskiden bu gibi

Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-07-02 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 10:24:22PM -0400, Chase James wrote: Would changing all mentions of woody to sarge in my apt/sources.list then doing a dist-upgrade fix the problem: The following packages have unmet dependencies: aptitude: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2 E: Broken packages

RE: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-07-01 Thread Chase James
for the advice. Chase -Original Message- From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 11:22 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 10:24:22PM -0400, Chase James wrote: Would

RE: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-06-30 Thread Chase James
Would changing all mentions of woody to sarge in my apt/sources.list then doing a dist-upgrade fix the problem: The following packages have unmet dependencies: aptitude: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2 E: Broken packages I know the Release Notes say to use aptitude, but could I just use

Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-06-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 10:24:22PM -0400, Chase James wrote: Would changing all mentions of woody to sarge in my apt/sources.list then doing a dist-upgrade fix the problem: The following packages have unmet dependencies: aptitude: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2 E: Broken packages

RE: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-06-29 Thread Chase James
12:35 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:59:29PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:11:51AM -0400, Bill Jones wrote: On 6/27/06, Chase James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'm trying

Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-06-29 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 01:18:57PM -0400 or thereabouts, Chase James wrote: Andrew, Yes, I changed every mention of stable to woody so I could upgrade all of my current woody packages before upgrading to sarge. Then I did apt-get update. Shouldn't that be 'apt-get dist-upgrade' ? --

RE: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-06-29 Thread Chase James
aptitude first will fix my broken aptitude package, then I'm willing to try it. -Original Message- From: Stephen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:30 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 01:18

RE: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-06-29 Thread Chase James
Actually, I already tried dist-upgrading woody and it still gives me the aptitude broken package error. -Original Message- From: Stephen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:30 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-06-29 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 02:57:07PM -0400, Chase James wrote: Actually, I already tried dist-upgrading woody and it still gives me the aptitude broken package error. I seem top remember long ago that when I upgraded from woody to sarge I was to upgrade aptitude first (possibly with perl) and

Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-06-28 Thread Bill Jones
On 6/27/06, Chase James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'm trying to upgrade a debian woody box to sarge according to the release notes. When attempting to install aptitude, I get the following error: # apt-get install aptitude Wierdness... Try apt-get upgrade aptitude aptitude provides

Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-06-28 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:11:51AM -0400, Bill Jones wrote: On 6/27/06, Chase James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'm trying to upgrade a debian woody box to sarge according to the release notes. When attempting to install aptitude, I get the following error: # apt-get install aptitude

Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-06-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:59:29PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:11:51AM -0400, Bill Jones wrote: On 6/27/06, Chase James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'm trying to upgrade a debian woody box to sarge according to the release notes. When attempting to

cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-06-27 Thread Chase James
report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: aptitude: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2 E: Broken packages Is there any way to repair this? Thanks for any help. Sincerely, Chase James

Re: Broken packages in Debian Sid

2006-06-26 Thread hendrik
: Broken packages [~] % sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-good Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... 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

Re: Broken packages in Debian Sid

2006-06-26 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
-plugins-good but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages [~] % sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-good Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation

Broken packages in Debian Sid

2006-06-25 Thread Wasyl
to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: rhythmbox: Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages [~] % sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-good Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done

Re: Broken packages in Debian Sid

2006-06-25 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 25 June 2006 08:43, Wasyl wrote: Hi, When i want to install a package often i see such result: [~] % sudo apt-get install rhythmbox [~] % sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-good Both packages can be installed and removed fine. Cannot reproduce your problem. Using Debian

Re: Broken packages in Debian Sid

2006-06-25 Thread David Baron
Missing python-twisted-core upgrade breaks all the other python-twisted packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Broken packages in Debian Sid

2006-06-25 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: rhythmbox: Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages [~] % sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-good Reading Package Lists

apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Hi list, I am running Debian unstable without x, except that some console apps seem to require some of the x infrastructure. Lately my apt-get upgrade, dist-upgrade, install, and remove all seem to fail because of a package or two that are neither fully installed or removed. I can't seem to

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
* Charles Hallenbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-14 05:42:43 -0400]: Try: apt-get remove --purge X11-common apt-get dist-upgrade -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Hi Dave, On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:02:30PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: * Charles Hallenbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-14 05:42:43 -0400]: Try: apt-get remove --purge X11-common apt-get dist-upgrade Here is what happens when I do the remove: Script started on Wed 14 Jun 2006

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Joris Huizer
Charles Hallenbeck wrote: Package x11-common is not installed, so not removed Hmm, you could try `dpkg --purge x11-common` HTH, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Simone Soldateschi
On 6/14/06, Charles Hallenbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dave,On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:02:30PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: * Charles Hallenbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-14 05:42:43 -0400]: Try: apt-get remove --purge X11-common apt-get dist-upgradeI had a similar problem two days ago

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
Ok, it looks like x11-common can't do anything because somethings hosed with debconf. Try apt-get -f install debconf, or dpkg-reconfigure debconf, and see what happens there. -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Hi, Joris On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:37:17PM +0200, Joris Huizer wrote: Charles Hallenbeck wrote: Package x11-common is not installed, so not removed Hmm, you could try `dpkg --purge x11-common` Unfortunately I get the same familiar output: Script started on Wed 14 Jun 2006 06:38:49 AM

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:39:07PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: Ok, it looks like x11-common can't do anything because somethings hosed with debconf. Try apt-get -f install debconf, or dpkg-reconfigure debconf, and see what happens there. The apt-get -f install debconf gives me the same

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
* Simone Soldateschi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-14 12:36:47 +0200]: A debian user suggested me to fix the problem using synaptic and filtering defective packages.. it did the job. Sorry. Here, he can't do that because he isn't even running X, only some components of it are needed for his

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Hi Simone, On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:36:47PM +0200, Simone Soldateschi wrote: I had a similar problem two days ago trying to update 'libwx2.6-dev' from backports. 'apt-get' failed package upgrade due to unmet dependencies and I was unable to fix the problem with 'apt -f install'. A

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Joris Huizer
Charles Hallenbeck wrote: Hi, Joris On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:37:17PM +0200, Joris Huizer wrote: Charles Hallenbeck wrote: Package x11-common is not installed, so not removed Hmm, you could try `dpkg --purge x11-common` Unfortunately I get the same familiar output: Script started on

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
* Charles Hallenbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-14 06:50:32 -0400]: Do I dare try to remove debconf? I better do a backup first, this is getting serious smile 'Eek!' said I, and yes, do a backup. Then, yank it out. Then, pull debconf from the testing repository manually and install with

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Hi Joris, When I add either the --force-depends or the --force-all option to the dpkg --purge x11-common command, they also fail to remove the package. When I then do an apt-get -f install, I get the same familiar failure as I reported earlier. I may have to save what I can and reinstall my

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