Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

[Amrish Purohit <amrish.distro@gmail.com>]

On 04/13/2012 01:29 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> [ Please turn off the HTML part of your messages. ]
I have turned of HTML part. Sorry for inconvenience.
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 14:48:15 +0530, Amrish Purohit wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I installed debian stable kde with live cd
> > "debian-live-6.0.3-i386-kde-desktop.iso".  My PC was not connected
> > with internet, so after the installation, my source.list file was
> > with only one line of cd - repository. Then I populated
> > /source.list/ with following repositories because I want to install
> > debian with testing.
> >
> > ###### Debian Main Repos
> > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
> > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
> >
> > ###### Debian Update Repos
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
> > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-proposed-updates main
> > contrib non-free
> > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
> > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-proposed-updates
> > main contrib non-free
> >
> > ##################### UNOFFICIAL  REPOS ######################
>
>   [ snip: debian-multimedia, google, skype ]
>
> > To convert debian stable in testing, I fired following commands.
> > apt-get update
> > apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> For the record: If you want to set up a "testing" system starting from a
> "stable" installation CD then I would recommend to only install a
> minimal stable system (no graphical environment etc.), upgrade this
> minimal system carefully to testing (kernel, udev, dpkg, and apt first,
> the do an "upgrade", followed by a "dist-upgrade") and then install the
> rest of the system from testing. Your approach is asking for trouble.

Yes, I know that this is good method, but It requires more manual task 
to set a working desktop environment.
> > But dist-upgrade failed with following error.
> > "E: Could not perform immediate configuration on
> > 'phonon-backend-vlc'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under
> > APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)"
>
> I think one or more of the following may help to untangle your system:
>
> - Comment out all third-party repositories and run "apt-get update"
>    again (as Daniel has already suggested).
I have done it, but same error is continued.
> - Add the usual lines for the stable repository ("squeeze") to your
>    sources list and run "apt-get update". (There may be rare cases where
>    a stable package needs to be installed temporarily to help break a
>    dependency loop.)

I am going to try with latest 6.0.4 kde live cd and fire dist-upgrade 
and hope, it may solve the prob.
> - Run "apt-get install -f", put its complete output on pastebin.com (or a
>    similar site) and send us the link.
>
> - Also show us the output of:
>    apt-cache policy phonon-backend-vlc libvlc5 libvlccore4
here is output:
phonon-backend-vlc:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.5.0-1
  Version table:
     0.5.0-1 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages
libvlc5:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.0.0-6
  Version table:
     2.0.0-6 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages
N: Unable to locate package libvlccore4

>    dpkg -l \*phonon\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $2,$3}'
libphonon4 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1
libqt4-phonon <none>
libsmokephonon3 4:4.4.5-3
phonon 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1
phonon-backend <none>
phonon-backend-gstreamer <none>
phonon-backend-mplayer <none>
phonon-backend-vlc <none>
phonon-backend-xine 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1

Thanks
Amrish