On 12/22/2010 09:18 AM, Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:13:53 -0600, Kent West wrote:I filed a bug report last week, but haven't heard anything back; thought maybe you folks might offer a solution.(...) Could it be a regression of this old/fixed bug? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566958 The referenced offending file is different (now "GrampsWidgets.py" instead "statusbar.py") but the error looks the same. Greetings,
That didn't solve my problem directly, but it did trigger a thought. Based on the manpage for sources.list ("with the most preferred source listed first"), I actually believed that the order of lines in /etc/apt/sources.list mattered, and since I had unstable listed first, I thought my system was running unstable for the most part.
But this triggered thought sent me on a tangent, which led me to the page at http://osdir.com/ml/linux.conectiva.apt-rpm/2003-11/msg00043.html which said (among other things):
...no matter what's in apt.conf.d, placed there by packages or whatever. Sources.list currently behaves exactly the opposite vs sources.list.d - I think the rule of least surprise should be followed here, instead of trying to change all documentation and brainwash users to forget about /etc/apt/sources.list :)"
So I tinkered around in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d, and found the "local" file, which had:
westk@westek:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d$ cat local APT::Default-Release "lenny"; APT::Install-Recommends "0"; APT::Install-Suggests "0";
I changed "lenny" to "unstable", ran aptitude update and aptitude install gramps, and now gramps works.
Dare I do a dist-upgrade now? Yep, think I'm gonna try it. Thanks! -- Kent West<*)))>< http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/