(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>