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Re: Upgrade fails



On 2016-09-29 11:41:59 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> On 29/09/16 11:21, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2016-09-29 11:13:17 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> >> Trying apt-get upgrade:
> >>
> >> 11:10:17 root@tony-fr:~# apt-get upgrade
> >> Reading package lists... Done
> >> Building dependency tree
> >> Reading state information... Done
> >> Calculating upgrade... Done
> >> The following packages have been kept back:
> >>   db5.1-util phonon-backend-vlc vlc vlc-nox vlc-plugin-notify
> >> vlc-plugin-pulse
> >> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
> >>
> >> I have no packages (deliberately) held back., so how do I get out of
> >> this situation?
> > 
> > Wait for the dependencies to be satisfied?
> > 
> Might be a long wait: I'm running Jessie!

Note that the above message is probably not possible with a pure
Debian/stable installation (in particular, no multimedia repo).

On 2016-09-29 12:07:47 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> On 29/09/16 12:03, Floris wrote:
> > apt-get purge vlc-data
> 
> No!! I don't want to lose this lot:
> 
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
[...]

In case you want to get rid of the packages from the multimedia repo,
an alternate solution could be:

  apt-get install -t stable vlc-data/stable [...]

with all packages that need to be downgraded. But note that
downgrading packages is not officially supported and may fail or
yield an inconsistent configuration state.

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