Re: Aptitude is broken

2015-08-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-08-08 13:35:10 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: Guess I'll wait until the churn slows:) And continue with apt-get. or you could reinstall the latest aptitude version that was working; this should be the version in stable and testing, 0.6.11-1+b1). -- Vincent Lefèvre vinc...@vinc17.net -

Aptitude is broken

2015-08-08 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running Debian Sid and for the past 4 or 5 days I have had to switch from using aptitude to upgrade to using apt-get. This is what I get: root@frank-debian:/home/frank# aptitude aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol: _ZN7cwidget7widgets5pager8set_textERKSsPKc

Re: Aptitude is broken

2015-08-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
Frank McCormick: This is what I get: root@frank-debian:/home/frank# aptitude aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol: _ZN7cwidget7widgets5pager8set_textERKSsPKc You should search for existing bug reports and consider creating one yourself. Although it might help to just

Re: Aptitude is broken

2015-08-08 Thread Joe
On Sat, 08 Aug 2015 10:43:49 -0400 Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: I am running Debian Sid and for the past 4 or 5 days I have had to switch from using aptitude to upgrade to using apt-get. This is what I get: root@frank-debian:/home/frank# aptitude aptitude: symbol

Re: Aptitude is broken

2015-08-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/08/15 11:09 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: Frank McCormick: This is what I get: root@frank-debian:/home/frank# aptitude aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol: _ZN7cwidget7widgets5pager8set_textERKSsPKc You should search for existing bug reports and consider creating one

Re: Aptitude is broken

2015-08-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/08/15 11:16 AM, Joe wrote: On Sat, 08 Aug 2015 10:43:49 -0400 Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: I am running Debian Sid and for the past 4 or 5 days I have had to switch from using aptitude to upgrade to using apt-get. This is what I get: root@frank-debian:/home/frank#

Re: Aptitude is broken

2015-08-08 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
On 2015-08-08 10:43:49, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Debian Sid and for the past 4 or 5 days I have had to switch from using aptitude to upgrade to using apt-get. This is what I get: root@frank-debian:/home/frank# aptitude aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol:

Re: Aptitude is broken

2015-08-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/08/15 11:49 AM, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: On 2015-08-08 10:43:49, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Debian Sid and for the past 4 or 5 days I have had to switch from using aptitude to upgrade to using apt-get. This is what I get: root@frank-debian:/home/frank# aptitude aptitude:

Re: Aptitude is broken

2015-08-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/08/15 01:32 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 08/08/15 11:49 AM, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: On 2015-08-08 10:43:49, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Debian Sid and for the past 4 or 5 days I have had to switch from using aptitude to upgrade to using apt-get. This is what I get:

aptitude: recall broken packages

2007-02-19 Thread H.S.
Hello, I started using aptitude a few days ago. I remember that at that time it was showing many packages were broken and wanted to remove a bunch of them. I then did some operation that I now forget which made aptitude to 'forget' about those packages and to clear the cache or some such

Re: aptitude: recall broken packages

2007-02-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 15:40:10 -0500, H.S. wrote: Hello, I started using aptitude a few days ago. I remember that at that time it was showing many packages were broken and wanted to remove a bunch of them. I then did some operation that I now forget which made aptitude to 'forget'

Re: aptitude: recall broken packages

2007-02-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/02/07 22:08), Florian Kulzer wrote: Being broken (i.e. having an unfulfilled dependency, pre-dependency, or conflict) is a property of the package itself and should not depend on the package manager. The package manager, on the other hand, can help you to resolve breakages that occur,

Re: aptitude: recall broken packages

2007-02-19 Thread H.S.
Florian Kulzer wrote: Being broken (i.e. having an unfulfilled dependency, pre-dependency, or conflict) is a property of the package itself and should not depend on the package manager. The package manager, on the other hand, can help you to resolve breakages that occur, for example, during an

aptitude - held broken packages

2005-11-07 Thread marc
Hi, After an aptitude upgrade last week on an etch machine, which pulled in all the KDE 3.4 packages, I am having problems installing a few packages. For example # aptitude install kate-plugins returns E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. E: Unable to correct

Re: aptitude - finding broken packages

2003-11-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:20:58PM +0100, Richard Lyons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there a quicker way of locating the broken packages announced at the head of the screen than scrolling through everything? For packages in other than normal state: dpkg -l \* | grep -v '^.. ' Peace. --

Re: aptitude - finding broken packages

2003-11-03 Thread ScruLoose
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 12:29:29PM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:20:58PM +0100, Richard Lyons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there a quicker way of locating the broken packages announced at the head of the screen than scrolling through everything? For packages

Re: aptitude - finding broken packages

2003-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:38:41PM +0100, Richard Lyons said On Tuesday 28 October 2003 14:18, JG wrote: Is there a quicker way of locating the broken packages [...] /~b will bring you to the next broken package. l~b will narrow the packages list to only those that are broken.

Re: aptitude - finding broken packages

2003-10-29 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 09:40, Rob Weir wrote: [...lots of good advice snipped...] Thanks! -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

aptitude - finding broken packages

2003-10-28 Thread Richard Lyons
Is there a quicker way of locating the broken packages announced at the head of the screen than scrolling through everything? TIA -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude - finding broken packages

2003-10-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 14:18, JG wrote: Is there a quicker way of locating the broken packages [...] /~b will bring you to the next broken package. l~b will narrow the packages list to only those that are broken. [...] Thanks. I really haven't got used to this apt system yet. The

Re: aptitude - finding broken packages

2003-10-28 Thread Travis Crump
Richard Lyons wrote: Is there a quicker way of locating the broken packages announced at the head of the screen than scrolling through everything? TIA hit / to get the search box[or l to limit the display to just those packages], search for ~b. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature