[NBLUG/talk] apt-get issues

Robert Hayes rhayes at silcom.com
Tue Aug 8 20:13:48 PDT 2006


apt-get -u dist-upgrade 

yielded the following response:

1125 upgraded, 473 newly installed, 106 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
Need to get 917MB of archives.
After unpacking 626MB of additional disk space will be used.








On Monday 07 August 2006 05:55 pm, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> On Monday 07 August 2006 17:34, Robert Hayes wrote:
> > >>What distribution and version are you using?
> >
> > Knoppix 2.4.20 xfs
>
> I seem to remember that Knoppix was built on the assumption that it would
> be in a fairly static environment (i.e. a CD or DVD, possibly with home
> directories on a separate writable medium).  You can install and run it off
> a hard disk, but considering how many sources it draws packages from, you
> can expect upgrades to be a mess.
>
> What does your /etc/apt/sources.list file look like?
>
> > >> What does "apt-get upgrade" do?
> >
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1174 not upgraded.
>
> Sounds like your installation is not broken in any obvious way, but there
> must be something in the "kde" package that conflicts with something else,
> with the end result that apt-get would need to remove e2fsprogs and
> sysvinit in order to satisfy the dependencies.  I'd say that something is
> seriously wrong with one of your sources, and it was a very good thing that
> apt-get was able to warn you before removing either of those packages.



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