Apt problem when [Re:] upgrading to potato
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, J Sigbrandt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just read the document which I came across by chance:
>
> http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/potato/upgrade-i386/UPGRADING.html
>
> Shouldn't it be part of the potato release notes?
It is merged already.
> I came across a problem when upgrading ... after issuing 'apt-get
> dist-upgrade' it complained with:
>
> E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential
> package libpam0g due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad,
> but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option.
> E: Internal Error, Could not early remove libpam0g
>
> Having searched the net, I see that others have had the same problem and
> that one proposed solution is to issue this command:
>
> apt-get -o apt::force-loopbreak=1 dist-upgrade
>
> (from <http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/Archivum/linux-200002/msg00176.html>)
>
> Note the '=1' which is required but isn't mentioned in the error message.
> Also, the docs in version 0.3.19 of apt, don't include any info about
> Force-LoopBreak.
>
> I haven't proceeded any further at this stage, so cannot confirm whether
> the above works.
Hmmm. Josip: this seems important enough to add a note to release-notes.
Also Cc:'d to the apt maint, maybe he can provide more info (or updated
docs ;-)
Regards,
Anne Bezemer
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