Re: What is Recommend CLI Package Manager Tool for Newb?

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 04:46:03 +0000, T o n g wrote:

[...]

>   $ apt-get install swatch

[...]

>   The following extra packages will be installed:
>     libbit-vector-perl libcarp-clan-perl libdate-calc-perl libdate-manip-perl
>     libfile-tail-perl libperl5.10 libyaml-syck-perl perl perl-base perl-modules

[...]

>   The following packages will be upgraded:
>     libperl5.10 perl perl-base perl-modules
>   4 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 553 not upgraded.
>   Need to get 12.0MB of archives.
>   After this operation, 16.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
>   Do you want to continue [Y/n]? ^C
> 
> Simple and straightforward right? Now take a look at the followings:
> 
>   $ aptitude install swatch
>   The following NEW packages will be installed:
>     libbit-vector-perl{a} libcarp-clan-perl{a} libdate-calc-perl{a} 
>     libdate-manip-perl{a} libfile-tail-perl{a} libyaml-syck-perl{a} swatch 
>   The following packages will be upgraded:
>     perl perl-base perl-modules 
>   3 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 554 not 
> upgraded.
>   Need to get 12.0MB of archives. After unpacking 16.5MB will be used.
>   The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>     libperl5.10: Depends: perl-base (= 5.10.1-12) but 5.10.1-14 is to be 
> installed.

So the problem is that aptitude thinks it cannot upgrade libperl5.10.
What is the output of:

  aptitude show libperl5.10 | awk '/^Package/,/^Version/'
  aptitude --simulate --show-deps install libperl5.10=5.10.1-14

(I only need to see the first solution that is proposed for the second
 command; you can quit immediately if it should go into another series
 of solution attempts.)

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Regards,            |
          Florian   |