Re: Apt-get UPgrade today
i removed xmh, because i say it was conflicintg,
duting the install' also remved xlibs which took out a whole bunch of
packages
Do you know where at-getkeeps a log of all its errors or messages?
brw, thanks for your help.
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, John Galt wrote:
>
> xlibs conflicts with the version you have ATM (at least it did for me last
> week when I apparently dealt with the problem). dist-upgrade should've
> solved it (that WAS the whole point of dist-upgrade at one
> time). If you know the culprit, just plain install it. My usual process
> for unstable upgrading (the conflict you're having here happens rather
> often...)
>
> 1) apt-get upgrade
>
> 2) apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> 3)CAUTIOUSLY apt-get install any packages held back. This may require
> that some packages that require the old version and haven't been upgraded
> in and of themselves: what can happen is that package foo can depend on
> package bar only equal to version baz: you install bar of version baz+1
> and package foo's dependency fails. Apt resolves dependencies from bar's
> perspective and clears out anything that now has failed
> dependencies. Package foo gets uninstalled. This is a sane way to do
> things, unless you think that foo is more important to your work than bar.
>
> 4) if 3) fails because you don't want to uninstall a given package: wait a
> week or two and try the setup again--the conflict may have resolved
> itself. Brand new packages take a little longer to propagate than updated
> versions, so if the package depends on a new package, it's very likely
> that the dependency will remain unmet until the new package
> propagates. The maintainer of the package foo might've gotten his package
> to work with bar version baz+1 in the meanwhile. Either way, the problem
> solves itself.
>
> 5) if 4) fails, make a value judgement: which is more important--foo or
> bar or an ever increasing number of held packages while you wait out the
> conflict resolution? Run with it.
>
>
>
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, dude wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > still Didnt help install xlibs which seems to be the root of the problem
> >
> > g
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, John Galt wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > do a dist-upgrade and that should bring down the number of "not
> > > installed"...
> > >
> > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, dude wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hello all.
> > > >
> > > > I've Just
> > > > Upgraded today and have noted that exactly 41 packages have not been fully
> > > > installed or removed
> > > >
> > > > The only error is get is:
> > > >
> > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-5_386.deb
> > > >
> > > > thanks for the help
> > > > please CC me a copy of your help directly
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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