Re: Packages wedged in sarge -> etch upgrade ( and apt-get vs. aptitude)

[Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>]

On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 11:54:04AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
>     Errors were encountered while processing:
>      mozilla-mplayer

Hum, well, managed to remove mozilla-mplayer and that seemed to ave
fixed it.  But, I had to remove mplayer in the process, too.

moseley@laptop:~$ dpkg -l | grep mplayer
rc  mozilla-mplayer       3.31+main-1                     MPlayer-Plugin for Mozilla
ri  mplayer-586           1.0-pre7cvs20060219-0.2sarge1   The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
ii  mplayer-skin-blue     1.6-1                           blue skin for mplayer



The laptop is in another location (upgrading over ssh) so it will be
interesting to see if X starts again.

This is what I did to "resolve" it:

moseley@laptop:~$ dpkg -l | grep mplayer
iU  mozilla-mplayer      3.31+main-1                   MPlayer-Plugin for Mozilla
ri  mplayer-586          1.0-pre7cvs20060219-0.2sarge1 The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
ii  mplayer-skin-blue    1.6-1                         blue skin for mplayer

moseley@laptop:~$ sudo dpkg -r mozilla-mplayer
(Reading database ... 34703 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mozilla-mplayer ...

moseley@laptop:~$ dpkg -l | grep mplayer
rc  mozilla-mplayer      3.31+main-1                   MPlayer-Plugin for Mozilla
ri  mplayer-586          1.0-pre7cvs20060219-0.2sarge1 The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
ii  mplayer-skin-blue    1.6-1                         blue skin for mplayer

moseley@laptop:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libdps1: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installable
  libxft1: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

moseley@laptop:~$ sudo apt-get -f install  
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libdps1 libmagick6 libxft1 xlibs
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 177 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 7664kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
(Reading database ... 34654 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libmagick6 ...
Removing libdps1 ...
Removing xlibs ...
Removing libxft1 ...

moseley@laptop:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade




-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org