how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 -> UP4
(Apologies if this is not the correct place to post (is there an
apt-user or aptitude-user list?), but it's been helpful in past.)
As detailed @
http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=99035
recently I successfully upgraded a box with Linux Mint Debian Edition
Update Pack 3 (with which I've been a happy ubuntu refugee) to the
recently-announced LMDE UP4. Saturday (14 Apr 2012) I tried to do this
on another box (after again doing both a full duplicity backup and a
clonezilla). mintupdate (which I launched, as before, from console
with `gksudo mintupdate &`) just kept dying, silently, in many
different places. I tried again Sunday (15 Apr) night, with same
results. Eventually I gave up, and went back to aptitude, launched via
`sudo aptitude update ; sudo aptitude full-upgrade`
aptitude did not die silently! and chugged on until finished. However,
on finish it reported, at the end of a very long scroll (thank you,
gnome-terminal :-)
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
with regard to 35 different packages (followed by details for each one)
before ending with
> Errors were encountered while processing: # sorted by me
> brasero
> evince
> file-roller
> gconf2
> gdm3
> gnome-applets
> gnome-bluetooth
> gnome-control-center
> gnome-disk-utility
> gnome-panel
> gnome-power-manager
> gnome-session
> gnome-settings-daemon
> gnome-themes-standard
> gnome-user-share
> gvfs
> gvfs-backends
> gvfs-bin
> libgconf2-4
> libgnome2-common
> murrine-themes
> nautilus
> nautilus-actions
> nautilus-open-terminal
> nautilus-sendto
> nautilus-share
> network-manager
> network-manager-gnome
> network-manager-pptp
> network-manager-pptp-gnome
> rhythmbox
> rhythmbox-plugins
> totem
> totem-mozilla
> totem-plugins
>
> Current status: 29 broken [+29], 1128 updates [-112], 35600 new [-1].
Obviously I'm gonna need network-manager* and gnome* and will very
much want most of the rest. How to fix? Note that, as noted above,
I can (presumably :-) rollback to a working LMDE UP3 if required.
Your assistance is appreciated, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>
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