aptitude has other behaviour using command-line and UI
...using command line, the system (debian lenny) seems fine:
mordor:~/.aptitude# aptitude update
Get:1 http://postmortem.csd.auth.gr testing Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://postmortem.csd.auth.gr testing/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://postmortem.csd.auth.gr testing/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://postmortem.csd.auth.gr testing/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://postmortem.csd.auth.gr testing Release
Hit http://postmortem.csd.auth.gr testing/main Packages/DiffIndex
Get:2 http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://postmortem.csd.auth.gr testing/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://postmortem.csd.auth.gr testing/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://postmortem.csd.auth.gr testing/main Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://postmortem.csd.auth.gr testing/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://postmortem.csd.auth.gr testing/non-free Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Sources
Fetched 2B in 2s (1B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
mordor:~/.aptitude# aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
mordor:~/.aptitude#
But if I start the UI, it reports:
#Broken: 89 Will free 344MB of disk space DL Size: 14.0 MB
and
[1(1)/...] Suggest 2 installs, 28 removals, 47 keeps
e: Examine !: Apply .: Next
Does anyone has an idea about what is happening?
Thanks!
G.
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