Hi, I've come accoss a similar problem, that my apt-get or aptitude wanted to remove my gnome, gtk, etc. Almost ervery core module of gnome i think.(see attached for the result of apt-get autoremove -s) I also guess sid's dependency may be broken recently.
Regards. Reeyarn 2008/6/14 Dietrich Bollmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > Thanks for all the answers :) > > I am trying to answer to all of them at once... > > Here my initial posting: > > > Since weeks I can't update debian sid as apt-get always wants to > > remove gnome: > > > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > [...] > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > epiphany-extensions fast-user-switch-applet gnome > > gnome-desktop-environment gnome-system-tools k3b libavcodeccvs51 > > libavdevicecvs52 libavformatcvs52 libavutilcvs49 liboobs-1-3 > > libpostproccvs51 libswscalecvs0 libuim5 scim-uim > > [...] > > > > As I couldn't find any mails from other users about this problem, I > > finally wonder if there is something wrong with my system. > > > > Should I continue to wait for some more weeks until finally gnome can > > be updated again or is there some better way to proceed? > > The temporary solution seems to be, as Daniel, Magnus and HS proposed, > to use aptitude rather than apt-get or synaptic. > > The following sequence updated most of my system: > > aptitude update > aptitude safe-upgrade > aptitude -s full-upgrade > aptitude full-upgrade > > Concerning the latter command, I followed the advice of HS: > > Aptitude usually tells you what is broken and what is the suggested > resolution. If you do not accept the suggestion, it gives you > another different one and so on until you accept one or just quit > the upgrade. > > and only accepted a partial solution. > > Aptitude still doesn't know about any final solution and still wants to: > > Remove the following packages: > fast-user-switch-applet > gnome > gnome-desktop-environment > gnome-system-tools > > which I am rejecting. > > This update / upgrade procedure removed the kde meta package which, as > Tom pointed out, didn't "hurt too much as it won't remove anything > except the meta package itself". Also I am currently mostly using > gnome anyway. > > Even if my system is in a somehow inconsistent state now, I can live > with this situation until the problem is solved and a new version of > gnome and kde can be installed. The most important thing is that I > still can update the rest of my system. In Joe's words: > > some of the time, the sid repositories are in an inconsistent state, > and a bit of patience is required. Looking at the current rate of > updates, about 70MB a day for my 2200 packages, this is not entirely > surprising. > > and also: > > so that's a matter of waiting > > Concerning aptitude vs. apt-get / synaptic, Daniel said: > > The algorithms used to solve dependencies are different, so > sometimes they'll produce different results. aptitude has more > facilities for showing why it's doing what it's doing, which is why > I suggested it. > > As the problem seems to concern all people using gnome on debian sid > (Daniel: [...] broken gnome-system-tools [...] broken kdenetwork > [...]), but still I couldn't find other postings about the problem, I > suppose that most of the people using debian sid rather use aptitude > than apt-get or synaptic to update their system and do not mind > packages listed as broken too much :) > > To cite Daniel again: > > So, these are the dependencies it's trying to resolve. The big > problems for you are probably the broken gnome-system-tools (which > is required by gnome-desktop-environment) and the broken kdenetwork > (which is part of kde). In the case of kdenetwork, you can't > upgrade it until kde is rebuilt for your architecture -- according > to packages.debian.org, packages like dcoprss are only at 4:3.5.9-2 > on amd64, hppa, and ia64 so far. > > gnome is broken because gnome-desktop-environment depends on > gnome-system-tools, which depends on both system-tools-backends and > liboobs-1-3; however, the new version of system-tools-backends > conflicts with liboobs-1-3. So the version of gnome in sid just > can't be installed at all, ever. > > In other words, neither of these packages can be upgraded right now. > > I am happy to wait :) > > Thank you all for your help, > > Dietrich > > > PS: > > Thanks to Ron for teaching me about: apt-show-versions -u | sort > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Reeyarn
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