Re: aptitude problem WAS: Re: NMU and hijacking of gnome-apt
Marc Martinez wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 03:24:32PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
> > looks like bug, doesn't it? but considering that I didn't update
> > aptitude in few days (since nov 22) I guess it would already show up in
> > bug database...
> >
> > ideas/comments appreciated... TIA
>
> already has, and already fixed, too .. I'm guessing you have
> 0.2.7.2-1? judging by your last update time, I'm guessing you did
> your run before your mirror had the new version copied out which fixes
> it. see Bug#120578 for more details..
whoops, I forgot it could have been fixed already. so aptitude runs
now, but still doesn't seem usable, the list of packages is almost
empty, the upgrade does not work work (I just did apt-get update &&
apt-get dist-upgrade, so basically it should just say there's nothing to
update or something like that).
here's the list of all installed packages according to aptitude:
------------------------------------------------------
[+] Installed Packages
[+] base: The Debian base system
[+] main: The main Debian archive
ih libstdc++2.10
1:2.95.2-11:2.95.2-1
i libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
1:2.95.4-01:2.95.4-0
[+] devel: Utilities and programs for software development
[+] main: The main Debian archive
i libstdc++2.10-dev
1:2.95.4-01:2.95.4-0
[+] electronics: Programs for working with circuits and electronics
[+] main: The main Debian archive
i x10 1.06-6
1.06-6
i x10-automate 1.00-4
1.00-4
[+] libs: Collections of software routines
[+] main: The main Debian archive
i libmysqlclient10 3.23.45-1
3.23.45-1
[+] x11: The X window system and related software
[+] main: The main Debian
archive
ih wmx10 0.02-3
0.02-3
ih xfonts-100dpi 4.1.0-9
4.1.0-9
i xfonts-100dpi-transcoded 4.1.0-9
4.1.0-9
i xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2-100dpi 3.0.0-14
3.0.0-14
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here's what is says when I hit g:
lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk
x Apt
errors x
xE: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
#x
xE: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be
installedax
x [ Ok
] x
mqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqj
it's true that some of the packages are held, but why wouldn't it show
them? I mean that's why I want to use apt to be able to fix these
problems, not to tell me there's a problem. It used to work, long time
ago, it would show the packages (installed, removed, held etc.) and I
could change the status, see why they are held etc. what am I missing? I
mean it's completely unusable for quite some time (even before this
'packages are held' problem).
TIA
erik
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