Re: Apt-get UPgrade today
xlibs conflicts with the version you have ATM (at least it did for me last
week when I apparently dealt with the problem). dist-upgrade should've
solved it (that WAS the whole point of dist-upgrade at one
time). If you know the culprit, just plain install it. My usual process
for unstable upgrading (the conflict you're having here happens rather
often...)
1) apt-get upgrade
2) apt-get dist-upgrade
3)CAUTIOUSLY apt-get install any packages held back. This may require
that some packages that require the old version and haven't been upgraded
in and of themselves: what can happen is that package foo can depend on
package bar only equal to version baz: you install bar of version baz+1
and package foo's dependency fails. Apt resolves dependencies from bar's
perspective and clears out anything that now has failed
dependencies. Package foo gets uninstalled. This is a sane way to do
things, unless you think that foo is more important to your work than bar.
4) if 3) fails because you don't want to uninstall a given package: wait a
week or two and try the setup again--the conflict may have resolved
itself. Brand new packages take a little longer to propagate than updated
versions, so if the package depends on a new package, it's very likely
that the dependency will remain unmet until the new package
propagates. The maintainer of the package foo might've gotten his package
to work with bar version baz+1 in the meanwhile. Either way, the problem
solves itself.
5) if 4) fails, make a value judgement: which is more important--foo or
bar or an ever increasing number of held packages while you wait out the
conflict resolution? Run with it.
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, dude wrote:
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> still Didnt help install xlibs which seems to be the root of the problem
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> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, John Galt wrote:
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> > do a dist-upgrade and that should bring down the number of "not
> > installed"...
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> > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, dude wrote:
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> > >
> > >
> > > Hello all.
> > >
> > > I've Just
> > > Upgraded today and have noted that exactly 41 packages have not been fully
> > > installed or removed
> > >
> > > The only error is get is:
> > >
> > > /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-5_386.deb
> > >
> > > thanks for the help
> > > please CC me a copy of your help directly
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > There is an old saying that if a million monkeys typed on a million
> > keyboards for a million years, eventually all the works of Shakespeare
> > would be produced. Now, thanks to Usenet, we know this is not true.
> >
> > Who is John Galt? galt@inconnu.isu.edu, that's who!
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