Re: apt wants to remove bash
See *many* posts to the list in the last few days. You need to manually
downgrade base-files.
-Ted
On Thursday 21 April 2005 06:55, Shawn D'Alimonte wrote:
> I am having a problem with upgrading. Running apt-get upgrade doesn't
> upgrade most of the packages. When I run dist-upgrade it wants to
> remove a lot of packages including bash. Obviously, this is a problem.
> Usually I use synaptic to do upgrades which results in the same
> behaviour.
>
> This has gone on for several days. Is there an easy fix for this? I
> think it is related to libc6. Should I risk forcing it (and possibly
> not being able to reinstall bash, etc.)?
>
> dpkg -l libc6
> -------------
> ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20.0 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and
>
> sources.lst
> -----------
>
> deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sid main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sid main contrib
> non-free
>
> # Marillat
> deb http://cyberspace.ucla.edu/marillat/ unstable main
> deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
> deb-src ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
>
> # CInelerra
> deb http://www.kiberpipa.org/~minmax/cinelerra/builds/athlonxp/ ./
> deb-src http://www.kiberpipa.org/~minmax/cinelerra/builds/sid/ ./
>
>
> Sample apt-get -u dist-upgrade run:
> -----------------------------------
>
> pitr:~$ sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> base-files bash deborphan fetchmail fetchmailconf foomatic-bin
> foomatic-db
> foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-gimp-print foomatic-db-hpijs
> foomatic-filters
> foomatic-filters-ppds foomatic-gui gnome-desktop-environment
> gnome-volume-manager hal hotplug mailx python-foomatic udev
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client exim4-base exim4-daemon-light ffmpeg
> gocr gpm gtimer hdparm hpijs hplip hplip-data kmenc15 libavcodeccvs
> libbio2jack0
> libc6 libc6-dev libcupsimage2 libcupsys2-gnutls10 libexpat1
> libexpat1-dev libgeos2 libgpmg1 libgpmg1-dev libnspr4 libnss3 liborbit0
> liborbit2 libpostproc0 libsane libscrollkeeper0 libsmbclient libswfdec0.3
> libzvbi-common libzvbi0 locales login mencoder mozilla mozilla-browser
> mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm mplayer passwd pkg-config samba samba-common
> sane-utils scrollkeeper smbclient smbfs swf-player vorbis-tools WARNING:
> The following essential packages will be removed
> This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
> base-files bash
> 54 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 20 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 66.5MB of archives.
> After unpacking 51.0MB disk space will be freed.
> You are about to do something potentially harmful
> To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
> ?]
>
> --
> Shawn D'Alimonte shawnd@mycybernet.net
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