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I'm running Debian sid and the most recent dist-upgrade wants to remove a whack of gnome apps which would render my system useless. Here's what I get for a dist-upgrade: Mallard:/home/duckwing# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: gnome-card-games gnome-games gnome-utils guile1.3 libguile6 libguile6-slib libssl096 pnmtopng python-zlib stormpkg task-gnome-apps task-gnome-games task-helix-gnome The following NEW packages will be installed: asclock-themes bonobo console-common debconf-utils defoma gawk gconf gtkglarea5 guile-common guile1.4 guile1.4-slib jadetex libcap1 libdb3 libefs1 libexpat1 libg++2.8.1.3-glibc2.2 libgmp3 libgnome-vfs0 libmng1 libnetpbm9 libssl0.9.6 libwmf0 libwww0 linuxdoc-tools oaf perl perl-doc perl-modules perl-suid scrollkeeper sgmltools-lite The following packages have been kept back rpm sawfish sawfish-gnome 386 packages upgraded, 32 newly installed, 13 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 210MB of archives. After unpacking 25.5MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. If I just try apt-get upgrade, I get the following: Mallard:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back abiword adduser alien apt console-data console-tools console-tools-libs debconf debhelper devscripts dh-make docbook-stylesheets eperl gimp1.2-perl gnome-applets gnome-control-center gnome-core gnome-help-data gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session gnome-terminal gnome-utils gnucash gs gtkhtml idle imagemagick jpilot libcapplet0 libcurses-perl libdbd-csv-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libdigest-md5-perl libgconf11 libgnome-perl libgtk-imlib-perl libgtk-perl libgtkhtml-data libgtkhtml7 libgtkxmhtml-perl libguile9 liblingua-ispell-perl libmagick5 libpam-modules libpaperg libqt2 libterm-slang-perl libterm-stool-perl libtext-csv-perl libtimedate-perl libwww-perl mpage mysql-client mysql-server netpbm perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base perl-5.005-doc perl-5.005-suid perl-5.6 perl-5.6-base perl-base perlmagick pilot-link python-base python-dev python-examples python-gdbm python-mpz python-tk rpm sawfish sawfish-gnome sgmltools-2 ssh tetex-bin util-linux xt 311 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 80 not upgraded. Need to get 157MB of archives. After unpacking 33.0MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. I haven't done a dist-upgrade in a while since the problems with perl5.6 were initially discovered. But I do not know why I have these problems. Here's my sources.list: #for ximian gnome deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/distributions/debian unstable main #for Debian deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.vlug.org/linux/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free So the question is, why is sawfish being kept back in the dist-upgrade and removing gnome. Why are 80 packages (mostly gnome related plus a lot of perl packages as well) kept back in the regular upgrade? What changed to cause these problems and how can I solve the problem before I upgrade? I don't want to hose my system here and yet that's exactly what seems would happen if I went through with the upgrade. I thought about trying to add the sources for the Gnome 1.4 beta but I understand there are some issues with it and Sid right now so I didn't bother. -- ________________________________________________________________________ __ _ Carl B. Constantine / / (_)__ __ ____ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / (2.4.1) ICQ: 26351441 /____/_/_//_/\_ _/ /_/\_\ Stormix 2000 PGP key available on request ________________________________________________________________________ Up the line - out the server- past the firewall - nothing but Net!!
