Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

Patrick Wiseman wrote :
I did my daily testing update this morning, and aptitude has
disappeared. Attempts to apt-get install aptitude are so far
unsuccessful, because of unmet dependencies. Attempts to install
those missing dependencies also fail, in particular the following:

# apt-get install libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6-4.6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting apt instead of libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6-4.6
apt is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
texlive-common update-notifier-common preview-latex-style texlive lmodern
texpower-manual texlive-pstricks texlive-base-bin texpower
texlive-extra-utils texlive-latex-base texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-humanities-doc texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-recommended
texlive-latex-recommended-doc dvipdfmx latex-beamer prosper tipa
texlive-latex-base-doc latex-xcolor python-vte texlive-fonts-recommended-doc
pgf texlive-humanities texlive-base ps2eps texlive-doc-base
texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc texlive-pictures
texlive-base-bin-doc texlive-math-extra texlive-pictures-doc
texlive-pstricks-doc texlive-generic-extra tex-common lacheck
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Note that in the middle of all that texlive stuff is
update-notifier-common, which I would think is critical to system
updates. Should I do as suggested, and autoremove all this stuff?
And against what package should I file a bug?

Patrick



Hi, I went through this yesterday, I had "aptitude-gtk" installed for
testing purpose, but it went "boom" with dependency problems so I
removed it during the upgrade. After that, also aptitude was marked
installed, it wasn't available, even not to the "which" or "whereis"
programs.
I removed aptitude with apt-get, installed it again from testing, and
now it works fine again.

Tom


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