I've been doing apt-get update's for about a week now, on three
different Debian systems which are all more-or-less recent "testing"
systems, and none of them will let me do an "apt-get dist-upgrade". I
keep getting some packages listed, then this error:
Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by
held packages.
I have no held packages on my system, though (I used --ignore-hold and
it made no difference).
I've gone through and tried to "fix" these problems by removing unused
and older packages; often this changes the packages that are named in
the error, but then another package gives an error. I have to believe
that there's something a bit more fundamentally wrong here, but I don't
know how to figure it out :(
For example, on one of my systems:
# apt-get -s --ignore-hold dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Failed
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
libgal4:E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be
caused by held packages.
# dlocate -l libgal4
ii libgal4 0.5-7 G App Libs (run time library)
# apt-get -s install libgal4
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, libgal4 is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 220 not upgraded.
Before this it complained about libncurses4, blt4.0 vs. blt8.0, etc.
Anyone have any ideas on what's going on here, or ways to investigate
further?
Thanks...
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