Re: [debian-knoppix] apt: .. 287 not upgraded !!!
I should have also mentioned a bit about what is likely causing the
problem. Knoppix is a mix of stable, testing and unstable Debian. The
apt preferences are set to testing. What can happen is when you add a
package dependency problems can result. You have to take a look at what
it is in front of you and figure out how to resolve it.
Here is example:
When I attempted to add celerium apt wanted to remove a whole bunch of kde
stuff and abiword. The problem was apt was trying to get 2 cellerium
packages from unstable and one from testing. Installing all unstable
packages resolved the issue. ie apt-get -t unstable install celerium.
I suggest getting comfortable with dselect, one thing deslect does that
apt doesn't is suggest addtional packages. deslect will also help deal
with the dependency issues. Or in the example above I corrected part of
the problem of celerium with deslect, exited from it, looked into the
problem and then ran the apt-get -t unstable install celerium.
Chaz
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Chaz wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Matthias Braeunig wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > after some apt-get installs the database is confused. (I said no at the
> > Y/n prompt when apt wanted to remove 130 kde packages, which was
> > nonsense obviously)
> >
> > I heard several people had the same problem.
> > How do I get back to the database state where I was?
> > (the former /var/cache/apt/status-old is not available anymore)
> > I don't want neither to upgrade nor remove anything.
>
> Not to sound rude, but Unix and Linux don't have a recycle bin. When you
> delete or change a file, its done.
>
> I suggest you run deslect and add the packages manually (+ to add), or...
>
> You can create a list of the packages it wants to delete and add them
> with apt-get.
> apt-get install `cat listoffiles`
> or
> apt-get install package1 package2 ...
>
> Chaz
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