Re: Need help with post-squeeze problems

On 2011-04-28 18:39 +0200, Brad Alexander wrote:

I got my daughter's netbook upgraded to squeeze, however, there are some
issues that I have encountered. I did it per the squeeze release notes, the
audit, etc, then apt-get update on the new sources.lists, apt-get upgrade,
upgraded kernel and udev, rebooted, then did the dist-upgrade. The
dist-upgrade removed a bunch of packages:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
build-essential cervisia cupsddk-drivers debhelper dh-make g++ g++-4.3 gcc
gcc-4.3 gettext gnuift gnuift-perl imagemagick intltool-debian kde-trinity
kdemultimedia-trinity kdewebdev-trinity kernel-package kommander-trinity
libarts1-xine-trinity libblas3gf libcvsservice0 libdatrie0 libept0
libgfortran3 libgomp1 libgraphviz4 liblapack3gf libmagick10 librpm4.4
libstdc++6-4.3-dev libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libxine1 libxine1-misc-plugins
libxine1-plugins libxml-libxml-common-perl linux-headers-2.6.32-5-686
madwifi-source po-debconf python-glade2 python-gtk2 python-notify
python-numeric quanta-trinity wicd-gtk xserver-xorg-video-all
xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-imstt xserver-xorg-video-nsc
xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vga
xulrunner-1.9

This should not have happened. Are there some packages that you had put
on hold?

Now, when I try to install some of the packages that got removed, apt-get
does not want to reinstall the dependencies.

That's why they got removed in the first place, I suppose.

I'm not sure how far down the
rabbit hole I need to go.

With apt-get you can go as far as you like, it will never output any
useful diagnostics why it does not install the package you want.

Can someone tell me why the dependencies are not being installed and how I
can fix this? I dom't necessarily want to reboot, at least until I get her
wicd back.


[root@rubicon apt]# apt-get install wicd-gtk python-gtk2 python-glade2
python-numpy
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
python-numpy : Depends: libblas3gf but it is not going to be installed or
libblas.so.3gf or
libatlas3gf-base but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: libgfortran3 (>= 4.3) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: liblapack3gf but it is not going to be installed or
liblapack.so.3gf or
libatlas3gf-base but it is not going to be
installed
E: Broken packages

Can someone tell me why the dependencies are not being installed and how I
can fix this? I dom't necessarily want to reboot, at least until I get her
wicd back.

Try using aptitude instead of apt-get, first in dry-run mode as a normal
user:

$ aptitude -s -V -D -o "Aptitude::Delete-Unused=false" install wicd-gtk

If the suggested solution does not suit you, press 'n' at the prompt and
see what else aptitude has to offer.

Sven


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