On 17/03/11 12:07, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
Thanks for that Thierry - following your recipe has seemingly cleared the matter.On Thursday 17 March 2011 12:21:59 AG wrote:Hi This may be a non-issue, but for the last two days whenever I have tried to update testing/ wheezy through either the update-manager or through aptitude safe-upgrade, apt(itude) takes forever to resolve itself. After having run the aptitude safe-upgrade command an hour ago, it is still processing with the following output: Resolving dependencies ... Open: 49036; closed: 38043; defer: 88; conflict: 45 The first two figures are continuing to change (which at least shows that it is working), so this is a "snapshot". Does this mean my system is borked or is this something upstream? Any ideas how I could ascertain this? Thanks for any ideas. AGHad the problem, solved it by first using apt-get, which upgraded about half of the packages, then aptitude update and aptitude dist-upgrade. Solved! The problem was the replacement of openoffice by libreoffice. Thierry
As I default to LibO rather than OOo, the removal of OOo is just fine. However, the upgrade did confuse me, because if it is removing OOo, I'm not sure why OOo packages are also being upgraded:
The following packages will be upgraded:
<snip>
openoffice.org openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-common
openoffice.org-gcj openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-help-en-gb
openoffice.org-help-en-us openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb
openoffice.org-officebean <snip>
which results then in unresolved dependencies:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libreoffice-debian-menus: Conflicts: libreoffice-bundled which is
a virtual package.
ure: Breaks: openoffice.org-core (< 1:3.3~) but
1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2 is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
1) libreoffice-debian-menus
2) openoffice.org-core
3) openoffice.org-evolution
Anyway, thanks again for the assist.
AG