Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 -> UP4
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Wayne Topa <linuxtwo@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 04/16/2012 02:34 PM, Tom Roche wrote:
>>
>> (Apologies if this is not the correct place to post (is there an
>> apt-user or aptitude-user list?), but it's been helpful in past.)
>>
>> As detailed @
>>
>> http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=99035
>>
>> recently I successfully upgraded a box with Linux Mint Debian Edition
>> Update Pack 3 (with which I've been a happy ubuntu refugee) to the
>> recently-announced LMDE UP4. Saturday (14 Apr 2012) I tried to do
>this
>> on another box (after again doing both a full duplicity backup and a
>> clonezilla). mintupdate (which I launched, as before, from console
>> with `gksudo mintupdate&`) just kept dying, silently, in many
>> different places. I tried again Sunday (15 Apr) night, with same
>> results. Eventually I gave up, and went back to aptitude, launched
>via
>> `sudo aptitude update ; sudo aptitude full-upgrade`
>>
>> aptitude did not die silently! and chugged on until finished.
>However,
>> on finish it reported, at the end of a very long scroll (thank you,
>> gnome-terminal :-)
>>
>>> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
>>
>> with regard to 35 different packages (followed by details for each
>one)
>> before ending with
>>
>>> Errors were encountered while processing: # sorted by me
>>> brasero
>>> evince
>>> file-roller
>>> gconf2
>>> gdm3
>>> gnome-applets
>>> gnome-bluetooth
>>> gnome-control-center
>>> gnome-disk-utility
>>> gnome-panel
>>> gnome-power-manager
>>> gnome-session
>>> gnome-settings-daemon
>>> gnome-themes-standard
>>> gnome-user-share
>>> gvfs
>>> gvfs-backends
>>> gvfs-bin
>>> libgconf2-4
>>> libgnome2-common
>>> murrine-themes
>>> nautilus
>>> nautilus-actions
>>> nautilus-open-terminal
>>> nautilus-sendto
>>> nautilus-share
>>> network-manager
>>> network-manager-gnome
>>> network-manager-pptp
>>> network-manager-pptp-gnome
>>> rhythmbox
>>> rhythmbox-plugins
>>> totem
>>> totem-mozilla
>>> totem-plugins
>>>
>>> Current status: 29 broken [+29], 1128 updates [-112], 35600 new
>[-1].
>>
>> Obviously I'm gonna need network-manager* and gnome* and will very
>> much want most of the rest. How to fix? Note that, as noted above,
>> I can (presumably :-) rollback to a working LMDE UP3 if required.
>>
>> Your assistance is appreciated, Tom Roche<Tom_Roche@pobox.com>
>>
>>
>
>I just looked for lmde in the debian packages and it is not there so---
>
>I am guessing the lmde might be a Linux Mint package. So I would,
>respectfully suggest, you try the Linux Mint users list. Mint is based
>
>on debian but is not "Debian".
>
>HTH
>Wayne
>
>
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LMDE can be upgraded as Debian Sid. Some people (like me) have done it successfully.
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