On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 12:59:34PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > So what did it say after that? Sorry, here's the entire output of one of the tries: [bottom /etc/mail #1168] apt install libdb5.3/bookworm db5.3-util/bookworm db-util/bookworm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Selected version '5.3.28+dfsg2-1' (Debian:12.5/stable [amd64]) for 'libdb5.3' Selected version '5.3.28+dfsg2-1' (Debian:12.5/stable [amd64]) for 'db5.3-util' Selected version '5.3.2' (Debian:12.5/stable [all]) for 'db-util' The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: acl apache2-data apache2-utils augeas-lenses avahi-daemon clamav-base colord-data git-man gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg-wks-server guile-3.0-libs ipp-usb libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaugeas0 libavahi-core7 libcolorhug2 libdaemon0 libexif12 libgphoto2-l10n libgphoto2-port12 libgudev-1.0-0 libgusb2 libhashkit2 libieee1284-3 libldap-common liblua5.3-0 libnspr4 libnss-mdns libnss3 libopendbx1 libopendbx1-sqlite3 libopendkim11 libpoppler-glib8 libpoppler126 libpython2-stdlib libpython3.11 librbl1 librtmp1 libsane-common libsnmp-base libsnmp40 libssh2-1 libvbr2 mailutils-common python2 python2-minimal python3-augeas sane-airscan update-inetd usb.ids Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed: php8.2-fpm Suggested packages: php-pear The following packages will be REMOVED: apache2 apache2-bin clamav clamav-daemon clamav-freshclam clamav-milter clamav-unofficial-sigs clamdscan colord curl dirmngr git gnupg gnupg2 gpg-wks-client libapache2-mod-php8.2 libapache2-mod-ruid2 libaprutil1-ldap libclamav11 libcurl3-gnutls libcurl4 libdb5.3t64 libgphoto2-6 libldap-2.5-0 libmailutils9 libmemcached11 libpq5 libsane1 libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules-db mailutils mongo-tools opendkim opendkim-tools python-apt python3-certbot-apache python3-debianbts python3-pycurl python3-pysimplesoap python3-reportbug reportbug sane-utils sasl2-bin sendmail sendmail-bin sensible-mda The following NEW packages will be installed: libdb5.3 php8.2-fpm The following packages will be DOWNGRADED: db-util db5.3-util 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 2 downgraded, 46 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1,743 kB/2,507 kB of archives. After this operation, 234 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. > > Is there some way to get apt to reinstall a package such that it does > > not think it has to uninstall things which depend on it because it's > > being immediatly reinstalled? > > That is the idea behind reinstall, though downgrading is always > a test of its ability to succeed. What it says it's going to do is actually remove those 46 packages and not reinstall them. I believe it! Clearly apt is unwinding the dependencies. It seems like it's not taking into account the downgraded libdb5.3 is a valid dependency for all the things it's about to uninstall so it doesn't need to uninstall those things. I thought it should do that, but for some reason, it's not doing that for me.
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