[NBLUG/talk] apt-get issues

Robert Hayes rhayes at silcom.com
Tue Aug 8 20:21:19 PDT 2006


Sorry to be verbose in multiple emails.

Some googling brought up a support query that rang a bell with me.

At one point in the past I manually installed one or more packages from 
'unstable'. Apparently this is the cause of the problem. 

At this point I think a dist-upgrade will solve the problem, but I'll wait a 
bit and see if anyone chimes in.

Thanks.



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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