Trying to give the history correctly; this is the second time I've had wierd dependency cascades. Yesterday I saw "217 updates available" ( well about ). Did the updates piecemeal, using synaptic, picked a few central ones, update reboot, repeat, then ran the lot. Things acted sane, no "I have to remove - - - to do this". On the last pass ( lots of stuff ) it did give an error msg. failure to get a file I think. Re-tried, downloaded and installed one item ( a lib for Audacity? I don't remember as it was non-system not critical to me. ).
Then it says it's happy, but, do I want to update to Ubunto 8.?? LTS ( didn't note exact number. ) I said OK. It said about 1 hr to download (DSL) and time to install. Gave an error, said it had problems and I might have a broken system. ( Yeah I should have taken notes, didn't.) It re-started, said there were 270(?) packages to update, and the update tool said it had too many problems - use synaptic. Synaptic came up, showed ACPI as being installed-upgradable, not a laptop, no use for ACPI so I said "mark for removal". Synaptic said ( incredible long list ) had to be removed - installed - upgraded. Hmm, list included gnome-desktop, python stuff, openoffice.... I tried marking apt for update. Same deal. it wants to strip and re-build the world. If this isn't familiar, tell me what files/information you want and I'll send it out. It seems that the hurt upgrade trashed the dependency data. dave -- apt tools remove upline dependencies https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/92546 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
