Re: upgrade using aptitude
Thanks, Freeman. The problem is solved. I just manually keep back evolution's
upgrade in aptitude, and then all the others were upgraded smoothly. Now
my debian is on unstale version. My source list do jumping among stable,
testing, and unstable, and unstable's has the highest priority. The good
thing of this way is rolling upgrade.
Still another dependency conflict loop is constituded by upgrading of
evolution and libgtkhtml3.14-19. This dependency conflict needs to
resolve. It's probably on the way.
Thanks, :)
Qi Qi
Freeman <hewho7@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 07:35:27AM -0600, Qi Qi wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have been using debian unstable. After debian 6.0 released, aptitude
>> upgrading asks me to remove gnome, gnome-core, and
>> gnome-desktop-enviroment,etc. Is it saying that I have to remove those
>> and reinstall them back, or removing gnome can be avoided.
>>
>> I tried different resolutions provided in aptitude for dependency conflicts. But
>> it seems all of the proposals asks for gnome removal. Is it normal
>> during the transition of debian upgrading time?
>>
>
> The "etc." part is extremely unspecific. Does "etc." another meta-package or
> a long list of real packages?
>
> You can mark the proposed removals for "keep" in aptitude. But I recently
> read that meta-packages are inconsequential in removals. (Make sure
> aptitude is set to display intended actions first.)
>
> Or you can *not* risk your entire system and upgrade the right and
> recommended way according to release notes.
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes
>
> The recommended way involves an upgrade, a kernel install, a udev install
> and a dis-upgrade udder apt-get.
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Qi Qi
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