[Solved] Re: [Debian SID] "aptitude upgrade" problem

From: Ibrahim Mubarak (ibmub80_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/29/04

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    --- ocl <ocl@arayan.com> wrote:

    > > I tried "aptitude install" for a few of them, especially capplets, eog, totem, and
    > libgnome2-0,
    > > but aptitude tells me that 200+ pakages (mainly gnome-related, but not exclusively as
    > pkg-config
    > > is among them!) are no longer used and will be removed. Anyone else having this problem? Which
    > > package is responsible for this? Is there anything I can do (I am still a beginner when it
    > comes
    > > to debian system administration, hehe) to try and get to the root of the problem?
    >
    > I had a similar problem. I decided not to trust aptitude and used
    > synaptic instead. That solved it.
    >
    > I have no idea what is responsible for it, though.
    >

    Thanks a lot. Synoptic works great. I guess we just found an aptitude bug :(.

    By the way, what does obsolete packages mean in synoptic (could not find anything about it in the
    help)? Is it like with aptitude? I preferred aptitude over apt-get because it would remove useless
    packages whenever the dependencies of main packages would change. Is this what synoptic means by
    obsolete packages?

    ib

                    
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