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Re: Having Problems with apt-get update and apt-get upgrade



Mark Phillips wrote:
> I just completed an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on my Debian
> lenny machine. I noticed that evolution, which is installed on this
> machine, is still at version 2.10 and the latest in testing is version
> 2.22. If I do an apt-get install evolution, apt wants to delete a huge
> number of packages and update another long list:
> 
> 54 upgraded, 34 newly installed, 22 to remove and 454 not upgraded.
> Need to get 154MB of archives.
> After unpacking 6995kB of additional disk space will be used.
> 
> My question is why didn't evolution get updated when I did an apt-get
> update and apt-get upgrade? Aren't lenny and testing the same thing?
> 
> I don't have evolution pinned to any version in my sources.list - they
> are all vanilla lenny sources:
> 
> deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
> 
> deb ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
> deb-src ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
> 
> # alternate sites in case kernel.org is down
> deb ftp://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
> deb-src ftp://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
> 
> deb ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/ lenny main
> contrib non-free
> deb-src ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/ lenny main
> contrib non-free
> 
> # For w32codecs
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ lenny main
> 
> # For Cinelerra
> deb http://www.kiberpipa.org/~minmax/cinelerra/builds/pentium4/ ./
> 
> # for syncevolution
> deb http://www.estamos.de/download/apt stable main
> 
> My /etc/apt/preferences
> 
> Package: *
> Pin release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 800
> 
> Package: *
> Pin release a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 600
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Mark
> 
>  
> 
'apt-get upgrade' cannot remove any package, you should try 'dist-upgrade' then

-- 
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, Ukrainian C++ developer.

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