RE: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages
Andrew,
Well, the upgrade seems to be working great. I just changed every mention of
woody in apt/sources.list to sarge and did apt-get update. Then I did
'apt-get install aptitude' and aptitude installed fine. Then I did 'aptitude
dist-upgrade' and it seems to be working too. Thanks to all for the advice.
Chase
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:andrew@farwestbilliards.com]
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 11:22 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 10:24:22PM -0400, Chase James wrote:
> Would changing all mentions of woody to sarge in my apt/sources.list then
> doing a dist-upgrade fix the problem:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> aptitude: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2
> E: Broken packages
>
> I know the Release Notes say to use aptitude, but could I just use apt-get
> instead? Could my package system unbreak itself if I just dist-upgraded to
> sarge with apt-get?
I don't see why not, but I'm not familiar with the woody->sarge
migration. Generally though, in my experience, a sufficient number of
apt-get updates && apt-get dist-upgrades usually works (going from
mixed testing/unstable to unstable). There seems to be an effort to
move more people to using aptitude and that's probably why its
recommended. But if you are familiar with apt-get, I can't see the
harm in it. Now, if you've been using aptitude all along, you'll
likely lose of the automatic package flagging that aptitude does...
ymmv.
A
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chase James [mailto:cjames@bgadd.org]
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:57 PM
> To: Stephen
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages
>
>
> Actually, I already tried dist-upgrading woody and it still gives me the
> aptitude broken package error.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen [mailto:stephen.d.allen@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:30 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 01:18:57PM -0400 or thereabouts, Chase James
wrote:
> > Andrew,
> >
> > Yes, I changed every mention of stable to woody so I could upgrade all
of
> my
> > current woody packages before upgrading to sarge. Then I did apt-get
> update.
>
> Shouldn't that be 'apt-get dist-upgrade' ?
>
> --
> Regards
> Stephen
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