Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: aptitude
I had been testing connman and indicator-network but found that they did
not yet support WPA-Enterprise. Therefore I thought I could install
network-manager and network-manager-gnome. Forgetting that I was not
online, I ran "sudo aptitude install network-manager-gnome", was asked
if I wanted to solve the conflict by removing the conflicting packages
(connman and indicator-network), answered yes and ended up with neither
of the packages installed. This happened because aptitude proceeded with
removing connman and indicator-network even though the packages to
replace it were not fetched.
1) $ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04
2) $ apt-cache policy aptitude
aptitude:
Installed: 0.6.3-3.2ubuntu1
Candidate: 0.6.3-3.2ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 0.6.3-3.2ubuntu1 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3) I expected the packages to be either downloaded or the whole
transaction to be rolled back.
4) The transaction continued, and the conflicting packages (in this case
connman and indicator-network) were removed, although the packages which
were to replace them (network-manager and network-manager-gnome) had not
been downloaded. That way I was left without an internet connection
(except that the cache still contained connman and indicator-network so
I could install them again and fix the problem in another way).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: aptitude 0.6.3-3.2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-6.34-generic 2.6.38-rc7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-6-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 14 10:32:36 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110308)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_DK:en
LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: aptitude
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: aptitude (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/734737
Title:
aptitude removes packages conflicting with requested package even if
it was not downloaded
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