End of Saga: Re: Dependency hell following dpkg --audit
On Sunday 17 November 2013 12:08:05 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Following Andrei's advice, I used dpkg --audit to sort out problems
> with network connections, which it did very successfully.
>
> In the process, I discovered that there was quite a list of
> unconfigured packages. These I have been trying to configure. In
> the process I have unleashed a dependency hell, not only worse than
> I have ever seen, but worse than I ever imagined.
>
> Is there a trick? Other than trying one after another going
> backwards, and hoping that I will not either go round and round in
> circles, or meet a demand for a version that I can see no hope of
> installing.
>
> Here is the list as it currently stands. Help!
> http://paste.ubuntu.com/6431514/
>
> In fact, is this sensibly soluble, or should I give up on upgrading
> and reinstall?
To answer my own question, no, it is not sensibly soluble, and I
should certainly reinstall.
I have explored some more. It did not, and would not, upgrade to
Wheezy. According to uname -a it was 6.0.8, not 7 at all. So I
checked the sources.list, all correctly identified as wheezy, ran
update again, and tried to run apt-get upgrade. Got told that there
were lots of broken dependencies, and to run -f install, which then
refused to run. So I gave up and have now started a reinstallation.
I apologise for the lack of verbatim error mesages. I didn't think to
keep them, and as I said, it is already reinstalling. :-(
Sorry, archives,
Lisi
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