Re: Debian Stretch package conflicts... libnettle4 libarchive13 libgnutls-deb0-28 libgnutls30

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

On May 14, 2016, at 3:45 AM, Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> wrote:

> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 06:43:11PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> When I try to do aptitude full-upgrade on my Stretch Apple G4 PowerMac, I get conflicts.
>> 
>> These do not seem to be transient — they have been there for several days.
>> 
>> Anybody know what’s going on?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Rick
>> 
>>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>> libnettle4{a} 
>>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>> gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0 libarchive13 libasyncns0 libavcodec57 libavfilter6 libavformat57 libavresample3 libavutil55 
>>> libc-bin libc-l10n libc6 libkpathsea6 libpackagekit-glib2-18 libpam-systemd libpostproc54 libptexenc1 librest-0.7-0 
>>> libswresample2 libswscale4 libsynctex1 libsystemd0 libtexlua52 libtexluajit2 libudev1 libx264-148 locales 
>>> multiarch-support mythes-en-us packagekit packagekit-tools systemd systemd-sysv texlive-base texlive-binaries 
>>> texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc udev x11-apps 
>>> x11-xkb-utils 
>>> 41 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>>> Need to get 442 kB/104 MB of archives. After unpacking 16.6 MB will be freed.
>>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>> libgnutls-deb0-28 : Conflicts: libnettle4 but 2.7.1-5+deb8u1 is to be installed
>>> libgnutls30 : Conflicts: libnettle4 but 2.7.1-5+deb8u1 is to be installed
>>> open: 45; closed: 112; defer: 39; conflict: 46
>>> 
>>> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>>> 
>>>   Keep the following packages at their current version:
>>> 1)     libarchive13 [3.1.2-11+b1 (now, testing, unstable)]
>>> 2)     libnettle4 [Not Installed]                         
>>> 
>> 
> I used to use aptitude full-upgrade until I started having the same
> problem as you - wanting to remove huge lists of essential applications
> (like bash, etc.)  There is a long thread regarding this on the forums
> (which I can't find right now.)
> 
> I don't know why aptitude is doing this, but switching to apt-get
> dist-upgrade solved the problem and I haven't had any issues in ~8
> months.

Thanks for the pointer…  I tried apt-get dist-upgrade.  It gave essentially the same results — used different words but the intent was clearly the same.

Sven pointed out that this is a known problem with a version mismatch between Stretch and Jessie security.

Enjoy!
Rick