Dear Neil, Thanks for filing the bug report. I had similar experiences, which I resolved as follows.
First I did as you did: /var/lib/apt/lists/ and setting the absurdly high, APT::Cache-Limit "268435456"; (I used a lower limit) I then took the list of marked changes and saved the marked files in synaptic. I then unselected the last half of all the marked files. Then I applied, and it went well. I continued doing this until I was able to identify the problem files. They were: libx11-6 libx11-data libx11-dev They have unresolvable cross dependancies which jams synaptic. It would be nice that the user gets a message that the dependancies are screwed up, but that was what I found. Please try again unselecting the above three files. If it still does not work try the same approach I did and report back your findings. Hope this helps, -- Gerold Rupprecht 10 rue Louis-Curval CH-1206 Geneva Switzerland Tel./Fax +41 (0) 22 347 73 96 For OpenPGP key http://www.keyserver.net/ () Join the ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML mail and Microsoft attachments. /\ Software patents are endangering the computer industry all around the world. Join the LPF: http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/ http://petition.eurolinux.org/ Say no to OOXML -Microsoft's broken standard
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