Re: Aptitude is broken

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 08/08/15 01:32 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On 08/08/15 11:49 AM, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> > On 2015-08-08 10:43:49, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > > I am running Debian Sid and for the past 4 or 5 days I have had to
> > > switch
> > > from using aptitude to upgrade to using apt-get.
> > >
> > > This is what I get:
> > >
> > > root@frank-debian:/home/frank# aptitude
> > > aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol:
> > > _ZN7cwidget7widgets5pager8set_textERKSsPKc
> >
> > This was a temporary issue caused by the GCC 5 transition. It's fixed
> > in the
> > latest version of aptitude in unstable.
> >
> > Cheers
>
>
>    Good to know. I'll try it again.
>
> Thanks

  Well that creates more problems :)

root@frank-debian:/home/frank# apt-get install aptitude
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
  debhelper icu-devtools intltool-debian libatk1.0-dev 
libcairomm-1.0-dev libglade2-dev
  libgtk2.0-dev libharfbuzz-dev libharfbuzz-gobject0 libicu-dev 
libmail-sendmail-perl
  libpango1.0-dev libparted-fs-resize0 libsigc++-2.0-dev 
libsys-hostname-long-perl
  libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev libxdamage-dev libxft-dev 
libxinerama-dev libxml2-dev
  libxml2-utils libxrandr-dev po-debconf x11proto-composite-dev 
x11proto-damage-dev
  x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libboost-iostreams1.58.0 libcairomm-1.0-1 libcairomm-1.0-dev 
libcwidget3v5 libsigc++-2.0-0v5
  libsigc++-2.0-dev libxapian22v5
Suggested packages:
  apt-xapian-index debtags libcairomm-1.0-doc libcwidget-dev 
libsigc++-2.0-doc xapian-tools
Recommended packages:
  aptitude-doc-en aptitude-doc libparse-debianchangelog-perl
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gparted gsmartcontrol libatkmm-1.6-1 libatkmm-1.6-dev libcwidget3 
libept1.4.12
  libglademm-2.4-1c2a libglademm-2.4-dev libglibmm-2.4-1c2a 
libglibmm-2.4-dev libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a
  libgtkmm-2.4-dev libpangomm-1.4-1 libpangomm-1.4-dev 
libsigc++-2.0-0c2a libxapian22
  mate-system-monitor nitrogen synaptic
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  aptitude libboost-iostreams1.58.0 libcwidget3v5 libsigc++-2.0-0v5 
libxapian22v5
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libcairomm-1.0-1 libcairomm-1.0-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev
3 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 19 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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  Guess I'll wait until the churn slows:) And continue with apt-get.