Bug#362461: libbonobo2-0: continually reinstalls
Loïc Minier wrote:
Uhoh, looks like a dpkg or APT bug.
Definitely, see under
Can you please send the output of:
COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l libbonobo\*
and:
apt-cache policy libbonobo2-0
nostromo:~# COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l libbonobo\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version
Description
+++-============================================-============================================-========================================================================================================
un libbonobo-activation-dev <none>
(no description available)
un libbonobo-activation4 <none>
(no description available)
un libbonobo2 <none>
(no description available)
ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-1
Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonobo2-common 2.14.0-1
Bonobo CORBA interfaces library -- support files
ii libbonobo2-dev 2.14.0-1
Bonobo CORBA interfaces library -- development files
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.14.0-4
The Bonobo UI library
ii libbonoboui2-common 2.14.0-4
The Bonobo UI library -- common files
ii libbonoboui2-dev 2.14.0-4
The Bonobo UI library - development files
nostromo:~# apt-cache policy libbonobo2-0
libbonobo2-0:
Installed: 2.14.0-1
Candidate: 2.14.0-1
Version table:
2.14.0-1 0
500 http://mirror.switch.ch unstable/main Packages
*** 2.14.0-1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
But then I followed the other bug's hint:
nostromo:~# apt-get clean
nostromo:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
libbonobo2-0
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 171kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Get:1 http://mirror.switch.ch unstable/main libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-1 [171kB]
Fetched 171kB in 9s (18.9kB/s)
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
(Reading database ... 105086 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-1 (using
.../libbonobo2-0_2.14.0-1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libbonobo2-0 ...
Setting up libbonobo2-0 (2.14.0-1) ...
nostromo:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
I guess this is solved, most probably it had to do with the
amd64-->official debian transition.
Thanks for your help!
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