Upgrade to Woody is troubled by "missing" packages, according to dselect
Hello!
(Two instances of my problem have already appeared on the mailing list, but I only just subscribed, so forging a reply may not even work? See http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200207/msg02240.html
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My mirror has upgraded the stable tree this week from Potato to Woody. My /etc/apt/sources.list points to the stable tree:
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
Running dselect, it said it was going to remove the following packages:
gcc groff kernel-package latex2html
libauthen-pam-perl libio-stringy-perl libmime-base64-perl libmime-perl libnet-perl libnet-telnet-perl libstdc++2.10-dev libtimedate-perl locales mailtools
man-db mozilla openssl perl-5.005 perl-5.005-suid pnmtopng qmail-src ssh task-tex task-x-window-system task-x-window-system-core tetex-bin tetex-extra
tetex-nonfree ucspi-tcp-src wu-ftpd xbase-clients xcontrib xdm xf86setup xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-cjk xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-scalable
I should have guessed something was wrong! What followed was a crash course in overriding dselect's decisions.
All of this was caused because certain files "didn't seem to be available" to dselect. To name a few,
util-linux-locales (main worry)
apt-utils
libnet-ph-perl
gimpprint-locales
However, they are present in the tree of the respective mirrors, most certainly. I tried switching sources, as well, from ftp.freenet.de to ftp.nl.debian.org, but I get the same results.
Putting util-linux-locales_2.11n-4_all.deb in /var/cache/apt/archives, as one poster suggested, did not work for me.
I managed to complete the upgrade to Woody, ending up with a working system again, but it was not easy, and dselect still tries to deinstall every usefull service on my box.
Now, before I write a bug report, I would like to figure out where the problem is. Has anyone got a clue?
kind regards,
Stefan Rijnhart
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