Re: Today mozilla-firebird Wants To Remove KDE
Frank Gevaerts wrote:
If you go to a different release (i.e. from woody/stable to
sarge/testing), you need to run "apt-get dist-upgrade". Pay attention to
what it proposes to do. You may need to put some packages on hold.
Here is what I encounter when I attempt a dist-upgrade:
debian:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... failed
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
kde: Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be installed or
kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be
caused by held packages.
To my knowledge, I have not held any packages (I don't know how to do
that explicitly, anyway). Here is what is reported about the two packages
mentioned in the error message above:
debian:~# apt-get install kdebase-audiolibs
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, kdebase-audiolibs is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 399 not upgraded.
debian:~# apt-get install kdebase3-audiolibs
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package kdebase3-audiolibs has no available version, but exists in the
database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
E: Package kdebase3-audiolibs has no installation candidate
This is confusing to me, and I really don't know what to attempt next.
I once did an "apt-get update" with the following sources.list entry, but I
never did any upgrades from it:
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
Instead, I have tried to go to "testing", since I really want
mozilla-firebird.
Instead of the above entry in sources.list, I have been using the following:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
I definitely have done "apt-get update" several times since the switch.
Is it
possible that the switch has left some cruft in my APT database? I don't
think so, but I am a newbie.
Thanks,
David Crane
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