Re: dpenedencies in testing totally broken :(
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:19:49PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> lee wrote:
> > dependencies in testing are totally broken now :( Do not upgrade the
> > package lists until this has been fixed!
>
> Did you try if aptitude does a better job?
> It did so and had absolutely no problem to upgrade.
No, aptitude will it make it worse. I can´t get aptitude to do, or at
least to apparently do, what I want. Besides that, package selection
with aptitude is a horrible task. It seems to select or deselect
whatever it wants but not what I want to have selected.
> Also make sure that you install the xorg package!
Yeah, I have installed that and things are working so far. But there
are dependency problems that cannot be solved before the packages are
fixed.
> Some package are still from xorg-6.9 but none of those should be any harm:
> libice-dev
> libxft-dev
> pm-dev
> and some small other ones, some not from xorg.
The problem is the broken dependencies. If you install Xorg, you get
conflicts with packages or unfullfilled dependencies with packages
that have not been adapted to Xorg. Dselect deselected lots of
packages I want to keep automatically, and I cannot reselect them
manually for installation. Currently, it looks like this:
yun:/home/lee# dselect
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
gdm* giflib3g gnome-system-tools gnome-utils gtk-led-askpass libdirectfb-extra libdmx1 libdps1 libgdk-pixbuf2 libglide2 libmagick6 libqt4-gui libqt4-qt3support librsvg2-bin libsdl-mixer1.2
libsdl1.2debian-alsa* libsm-dev libsmpeg0 libtotem-plparser0 libwnck16 libxaw8 libxkbui1 lpr mozilla-firefox-gnome-support ooqstart-gnome qt4-dev-tools qt4-qtconfig render-dev ssh-askpass
ssh-askpass-fullscreen ssh-askpass-gnome transfig x11proto-render-dev xfig xfishtank xfonts-base xfonts-terminus xlibmesa-gl xloadimage xlockmore-gl xpdf-reader xplanet xplanet-images
xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark
xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-glint
xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-i810 xserver-xorg-video-imstt xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-newport xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-nv
xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
xserver-xorg-video-tga xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga xserver-xorg-video-via xserver-xorg-video-vmware
xstarfish zenity
The following NEW packages will be installed
cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client dia-gnome foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine gaim-extendedprefs gnome-applets gnome-doc-utils gnome-session gnome-terminal gs-gpl libgl1-mesa-glx libsdl1.2debian-all
libxml2-utils libxul0d nautilus python-libxml2 python2.3-libxml2 samba-common smbclient xresprobe xsltproc yelp
0 upgraded, 24 newly installed, 83 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 28.4MB/28.6MB of archives.
After unpacking 9170kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
I got it down to only the above, but it is not fixable. I even lost
the fonts for the X server and had to repair that to get Xorg to work.
Well, I only needed some QT libs to compile a program I want to try
out. I didn´t get the libs, but a broken system instead.
GH
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