Re: Package list problem
On 09/14/2007 07:02 AM, Daniel Santos wrote:
Andrei :
I ran that command on terminal.app and on the resulting packages onward
and every one is not installed. It reverse depends on gnustep (virtual
package), which reverse depends on gnustep-games and gnustep-devel, that
don't rdepend on nothing.
Mumia :
I used aptitude instead of synaptic and the error message was that the
gnustep-back-0.11 that terminal.app depends on is not available, and
that is
the reason why it can't be installed. Synaptic told me what I've written
on the
previous email.
I ran those searches and no output resulted. The packages are not
installed.
Pardon my ignorance, but I usually upgrade packages without paying
attention
to the distribution they fit in. My system is currently a lenny/sid. How
do I go
about bringing it to a single distribution (the latest unstable is the
preferred)?
Daniel Santos
Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list only has unstable sources in it.
Then do "aptitude update"
In aptitude ncurses interface, you can find out what packages don't
belong in unstable by going into the "Obsolete and Locally Created
Packages" section. Another option is to run "aptitude search
'~i!~Astable'" . Don't uninstall everything you find using those
methods. They just speed up the research of finding out what to remove.
After you've removed any packages that clearly block your upgrade to
Sid, you can do the traditional distribution upgrade procedure:
aptitude upgrade
aptitude dist-upgrade
This page describes the old upgrade procedure using apt-get:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html
You'll probably want to use aptitude instead, but the ideas are the
same. After you've upgraded to Sid, you'll probably want to reinstall
some of the Lenny programs that had to be removed during the upgrade.
Good luck.
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