On Friday 2008 November 28 03:49, Alex Samad wrote: > > Using the aptitude CUI, I open up the hplip package info, highlight the > > 2.8.6.b-1 version, and press '+'. This results in some breakage and a > > suggestion. The first suggestion involves removing hplip; I reject that > > action for hplip and request another suggestsion. This suggestion > > involves keeping hplip at version 1.6.10-3etch1; I reject that action for > > hplip and request another suggestion. Aptitute begins "thinking" and > > continues until all my RAM and swap are consumed and the kernel kills > > aptitude. > > > > Any suggestions? > > instead of using the auto solver, have a look at the broken packages > just after you have selected the package from testing use 'b'. It might > want to upgrade some other packages like python which will not > automatically update. Tried that a few times last night as well. I was never able to fix all the broken packages -- and each time I thought it was "enough" and asked the auto-solver to have a go, so solutions came out. I guess I'll use that technique some more and possibly update to the auto-solver from testing. I know aptitude (and it's deps) are one of the first things to upgrade when moving from oldstable to newstable, so maybe it would help with the large number of post-stable packages that the dep solver has to deal with. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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