[plug] busted upgrade

[Shayne O'Neill]

I tend to find aptitude to be *excelent* in diagnosing apt wierdness.
Sometimes makes things worse tho.

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On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Nick Bannon wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 10:18:05AM +0800, smclevie wrote:
> [...]
> > When I remove the GUI packages (just to try to start from a base of sorts)
> > and try installing through tasksel a desktop environment,
>
> Sounds like X is working, but your desktop environment is pretty
> spartan. Tasksel is a good way to fix that.
>
> > I get a rather significant list of packages that are 'not going to be
> > installed'.  WHY !!??
>
> Package pinning and such makes it harder to diagnose these things.
> Delete your /etc/apt/preferences file; do not set any default
> distribution; and simplify your /etc/apt/sources.list to something
> along the lines of:
> deb http://mirrors.uwa.edu.au/debian sarge main contrib non-free
>
> If you pick a specific package A and attempt to "apt-get install A",
> you will get a more specific answer for why A won't be installed.
> Perhaps it depends on a newer version of package B, but B won't be
> upgraded due to pinning. Perhaps C is installed, C conflicts with B,
> but you're quite happy for C to go. Then, try:
> apt-get --purge install B C-
>
> (install B, remove and purge C)
>
> If that works, go back to A. If you're not pinning or mixing
> distributions, this sort of problem should be rare.
>
> Nick.
>
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