Package: base-config Version: 2.53.10 Package Details:
Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: base Installed-Size: 1540 Depends: debconf (>= 1.3.22), apt, adduser, console-data (>=2002.12.04dbs-16), console-tools, passwd (>= 20000902-6), bsdutils (>= 1:2.11l), debianutils (>= 1.6), gettext-base Conflicts: tasksel (<< 2.00) Conffiles: /etc/logrotate.d/base-config 5d900eb788b130065b324325b239a9ec Description: Debian base system configurator This package handles setting up the Debian base system. It contains the configuration program you see when you install Debian for the first time and boot up your new Debian system. . It can be removed with no ill effects -- once your Debian system is installed, this package's only useful function is to allow you to reconfigure some things. Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org> Architecture: all Version: 2.53.102.53.10 Debian base system configurator Problem: I've just update and upgraded apt. The results from apt-get upgrade were: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: base-config 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. I apt-get dist-upgraded and the output was: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: base-config 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. I apt-get installed base-config and the output was: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: tasksel The following packages will be upgraded: base-config 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Finally, i apt-get'd install tasksel base-config Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done tasksel is already the newest version. 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: base-config: Conflicts: tasksel (< 2.25) but 2.24 is to be installed E: Broken packages I am running testing and it seems that base-config is conflicting with tasksel. Thanks, ~Mike Bentzen