Daniel Burrows wrote:
Well, I began already with a "Quicksort" type of approach: begin in the middle and work outward.On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:55:10PM -0500, microwaverich <richgrif@one.net> was heard to say:I don't know if I'm "up to" it, but I'd love to give it a go.Cool. Thanks! Part of the problem is, it doesn't happen on my computer. :-(If I understand you correctly, I should try installing the above aptitudes (in reverse order?) and then installing some other package (any package?).Yes -- starting with the most recent ones, install each aptitude version (just the ones I listed would be fine for now), then try installing or removing some small package. I use xsoldier for this sort of test, but you can pick a different victim if you like. The goal is to find the most recent broken version (i.e., the one where the breaking change was introduced). Thanks, Daniel
I went to http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/12/17/debian/pool/main/a/aptitude/ and downloaded aptitude_0.4.10-1_i386.deb and tried installing that. I didn't see a k7 version, if that matters.
It told me I needed libcwidget1, as you said it might, so I went back and got that, and it seemed to install just fine.
Then I repeated the install of aptitude, and here's what it told me: dpkg -i '///home/rich/downloads/aptitude_0.4.10-1_i386.deb' ;echo RESULT=$? (Reading database ... 112547 files and directories currently installed.)Preparing to replace aptitude 0.4.10-1 (using ..../aptitude_0.4.10-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement aptitude ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of aptitude: aptitude depends on libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6-4.6; however: Package libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6-4.6 is not installed. dpkg: error processing aptitude (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for menu ... Errors were encountered while processing: aptitude RESULT=1 I don't see such a libapt-pkg ... in the Lenny repository.I next tried installing the older version 0.4.5.3-1, but the installer refused to replace the 0.4.10-1 version due to dependencies with tasksel.
So I tried the newest one in your list: 0.4.11-2 It installed with no errors.I invoked aptitude in a console and checked Help->About to verify that I had the 0.4.11-2 version.
Then I searched for kstars, selected it (+), and hit 'g'. aptitude advised of three dependencies it would load (e.g., kstars data) and that libcwidget3 would be removed. I hit 'g' and off it went. When it returned, it responded to commands and exited properly when I selected 'q'.
:-) :-) :-) What next, Doc?