Re: APT Libraries

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Robert Stone <floriparob@gmail.com> writes:

> I am having a lot of trouble upgrading. A lot of packages require
> libapt-inst1.2 and libapt-pkg4.10.
> For example, python-apt depends on those two packages.
> According to the documentation, those two libraries are provided by apt-utils.
> Also, if you do a search of Debian bug reports for those two
> libraries, it tells you that they don't exist.
> My sources.list is pointed at "testing".
>
> Please help.
>
> Regards,
> Rob Stone

They are virtual packages provided by apt to manage the library ABI/API
incompatibilities.

MfG
   Goswin