On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 11:40:27AM -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote: > > I tried that, and got a *huge* raft of proposed deletions -- just from > asking for aptitude to be upgraded. what did you use to upgrade aptitude? you might want to use something that thinks its less intelligent to do this. If you used aptitude to try and upgrade aptitude, maybe you could try apt-get or even manually with dpkg. this all assumes you tried it with aptitude. Aptitude (not starting a war here folks) will try to be too smart sometimes in working through the dependencies resulting in a huge pile of deletions. so maybe apt-get or dpkg would work to get that one out of the way and then you could move on to upgrading the rest. or, if you wnted to use aptitude, you could try and figure out which "groups" of packages it was trying to remove and work up the dependency tree and mark the major ones to keep or hold. For example, if for some reason that aptitude upgrade tries to delete all of X, go in and manually select xorg and give it a + (instlal) or : (hold) and that should cascade down to the whole x system and keep it. I haven't read the whole thread in detail so I'm sorry if I'm repeating stuff here. my apt-cache show's that aptitude only depends on a handful of other packages (including, of course libc6, the big one). what is your apt-cache policy for aptitude -- specifically the depends line. and what versions of those packages do you currently have installed? A
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