Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.1.5-2
Severity: normal
aptitude sometimes prefers to remove packages instead of upgrading.
For instance:
# aptitude install gstreamer0.10-alsa
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
gstreamer0.10-alsa libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libgstreamer0.10-0{b}
3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 22 not upgraded.
Need to get 1882kB of archives. After unpacking 111kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libgstreamer0.10-0: Conflicts: gstreamer0.10-plugins-base (< 0.10.25.2) but
0.10.25-7 is installed and it is kept back.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
1) brasero
2) cheese
3) empathy
4) gnome-desktop-environment
5) gnome-media
6) gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
7) gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
8) gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
9) libempathy-gtk28
10) libempathy30
11) libgstfarsight0.10-0
12) libtelepathy-farsight0
13) sound-juicer
14) totem
15) totem-coherence
16) totem-mozilla
17) totem-plugins
Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
18) gnome-applets recommends gnome-media
19) gnome-media-common recommends gnome-media
20) nautilus recommends brasero (>= 2.26)
21) libswfdec-0.8-0 recommends gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
22) totem-plugins recommends totem-coherence
23) libbrasero-media0 recommends gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
Tier: Safe actions, Remove packages (10000)
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Upgrade the following packages:
1) gstreamer0.10-plugins-base [0.10.25-7 (testing, now) -> 0.10.26-1
(unstable)]
Tier: Safe actions, Remove packages (10000)
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
The following packages will be upgraded:
gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-plugins-base libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0
libgstreamer0.10-0
4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded.
Need to get 2610kB of archives. After unpacking 131kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
It should have chosen the second solution directly (only the first
one is chosen with the user interface).
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.6.1.5 compiled at Feb 3 2010 06:34:23
Compiler: g++ 4.4.3
Compiled against:
apt version 4.8.0
NCurses version 5.7
libsigc++ version: 2.2.4.2
Ept support enabled.
Gtk+ support disabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20090803
cwidget version: 0.5.16
Apt version: 4.8.0
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffb23ff000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8
(0x00007f41dbdd9000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib64/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f41dbb88000)
liblog4cxx.so.10 => /usr/lib/liblog4cxx.so.10 (0x00007f41db79a000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f41db595000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f41db2c9000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x00007f41db051000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x00007f41dad00000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f41daae9000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f41da85b000)
libboost_iostreams.so.1.40.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.40.0
(0x00007f41da650000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f41da434000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f41da123000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007f41d9ea1000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f41d9c8b000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f41d9936000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib64/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f41d9733000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f41d952f000)
libaprutil-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libaprutil-1.so.0 (0x00007f41d930b000)
libdb-4.8.so => /usr/lib/libdb-4.8.so (0x00007f41d8f91000)
libapr-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 (0x00007f41d8d59000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib64/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f41d8b48000)
librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x00007f41d8940000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f41dc0b7000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib64/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f41d873b000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib64/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00007f41d8504000)
libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007f41d82dc000)
Terminal: xterm-debian
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.9 0.7.25.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libboost-iostreams1.40. 1.40.0-6+b1 Boost.Iostreams Library
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.30 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.3-2 GCC support library
ii liblog4cxx10 0.10.0-1.1 A logging library for C++
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.4.2-1 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libsqlite3-0 3.6.22-1 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.3-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.18-1 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii apt-xapian-index 0.23 maintenance tools for a Xapian ind
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.6.1.5-2 English manual for aptitude, a ter
pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> (no description available)
ii sensible-utils 0.0.2 Utilities for sensible alternative
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn debtags <none> (no description available)
ii tasksel 2.81 Tool for selecting tasks for insta
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