On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 23:19:03 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> Running Sid.
>
> Some time ago I started getting this message from sudo
> aptitude update :
[...]
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> aptitude: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11 but it is not installable
> E: Broken packages
>
>
> In the meantime I have upgraded Synaptic, which Synaptic told me
> required Aptitude to be removed. I dunno why. But it removed it, and
> now I can't re-install it because of the missing dependacy.
>
> This is my sources list. Am I missing something ??
>
> deb ftp://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
> deb ftp://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/debian-multimedia/ sid main
>
> Searching the mailing list I saw someone with a similar
> problem a few months back but that was after he downloaded and
> installed a version of Aptitude that wasn't for Sid
You probably upgraded to apt version 0.7.2 recently; check with
"apt-cache policy apt". This new version provides the virtual package
libapt-pkg-libc6.5-6-4.4. Aptitude still depends on
libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11 which was provided by the previous version of
apt (0.6.46.4-0.1). You have to wait until a new version of aptitude
becomes available or you have to downgrade both apt and synaptic again.
(The newest version of synaptic already depends on the newest version of
apt.)
Somebody already filed a bug against aptitude (#428616).
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