hi savvas, On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:13:11AM +0200, Savvas Radevic wrote: > @Sean: thank you for the tip, didn't know that! :) > Sean, can you reply with the output of: > > apt-cache policy libmtp5 libmtp6
libmtp5: Installed: (none) Candidate: (none) Version table: 0.1.5-2 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status W: Unable to locate package libmtp6 > apt-cache rdepends libmtp5 libmtp6 libmtp5 Reverse Depends: W: Unable to locate package libmtp6 libmtp5 is not a candidate for autoremove via apt-get, but that may also be from poking that i did before doing the bugreport. > I really need to see where they came from, if they were manually > installed (or from another source) and if any packages depend on it. looks like that information is lost into the sands of time. i'm going to go with a hypothesis along the lines of: * long long ago i installed some package/metapackage that brought it in. * later on that/those packages were updated for a new libmtp8 * nothing ever removed libmtp5 from the system * the library/configfile/symlink combination didn't consider older libmtp's. sean --
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