----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Kitching" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael B Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 2:01 AM Subject: Re: Safely Upgrading Packages
> On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 18:43, Michael B Allen wrote: > > I've been running Debian on the net for a while. I thought it's time to look > > at keeping packages up to date. But when I run apt-get update: > > > > # apt-get upgrade > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > The following packages have been kept back > > apache apache-common autoconf debconf debianutils e2fsprogs file fileutils > > libgd2-noxpm mailman mysql-client > > mysql-server php4 php4-mysql php4-pear shellutils textutils > > 40 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 17 not upgraded. > > Need to get 12.0MB of archives. After unpacking 2192kB will be used. > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n > > Abort. > > > > Why are packages being "kept back". These are precisely the packages I want > > to update. > > Because the new versions of those packages have new dependencies, and > you don't have the new dependencies installed. > > That's the difference between "upgrade" and "dist-upgrade"; upgrade > never installs new packages, for security reasons. But dist-upgrade will > install any new stuff you need to satisfy upgrades of existing packages. On my unstable box, I have been upgrading, but not dist-upgrading. Just now I tried to do this and now have problems. I updated first, then a regular upgrade, and then the dist-upgrade. There were still some unmet dependencies, which I tried to install separaately. Then it suggested I use the -f option, so I tried that with upgrade and dist-upgrade. I am still left with this error: Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Release Reading Package Lists... Done [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: alsa-base: Depends: alsa-utils (>= 1.0.2-2) but it is not installed testdisk: Depends: libntfs5 (>= 1.9.0) but it is not installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get -f upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: alsa-utils libntfs5 The following packages have been kept back: cloop-utils frozen-bubble-data libxft2 mknbi pppconfig xlibmesa-dri 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. 86 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/193kB of archives. After unpacking 561kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 118569 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking alsa-utils (from .../alsa-utils_1.0.5-3_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_1.0.5-3_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/alsamixer', which is also in package knx-alsa dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Unpacking libntfs5 (from .../libntfs5_1.9.0-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libntfs5_1.9.0-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libntfs.so.5.0.0', which is also in package ntfsprogs dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_1.0.5-3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libntfs5_1.9.0-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# Any help greatly appreciated. - John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
