Re: upgrading in sid



The above is in response to apt-get -f install (what used to work in
the past for fixing issues, maybe that's my mistake?)

It is better to use "aptitude install -f" if aptitude is your package
manager of choice.

Anyway, it seems that you have a problem running update-gconf-defaults,
which is called in many installation scripts, the ones of desktop-base
among them. This might be caused by an issue with the libxml2 package or
it could be the symptom of a more general problem with python on your
system.


Thanks much for that explanation.


Let's see, which output do you get from these two commands:

dpkg -l libxml2 gconf2 | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'


delete:~# dpkg -l libxml2 gconf2 | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
ii gconf2 2.20.1-2
ii libxml2 2.6.30.dfsg-3



/usr/bin/python -V

delete:~# /usr/bin/python -V
Python 2.4.4



If I try to upgrade one of those packages individually with aptitude
install shared-mime-info then the below happens:

The following packages will be upgraded:
gnome-session libgnome2-common libgnomevfs2-common shared-mime-info
4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 795 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/2706kB of archives. After unpacking 1461kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Error!
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the desktop-base package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root?

You used apt-get to break the desktop-base package behind aptitude's
back and that seems to have confused aptitude. I would hope that this
problem goes away once you have fixed the desktop-base package.


Thanks again for letting me know that it was my mixing apt-get and aptitude that probably screwed me up.

I'll look into fixing the desktop-base package.

~c


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