On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Jimmy Johnson <field.engin...@gmail.com>wrote:
> B. Alexander wrote: > >> I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a while. >> This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of broken >> packages, unmet dependencies and conflicts. I have been using safe-upgrade >> for months now, hoping that it would work itself out over time. However, >> this hasn't happened. So what can I do to fix the problems without losing >> functionality? Below is the result of aptitude full-upgrade (forgive the >> cut-and-paste): >> SNIP< Thanks, >> > > > I'm using KDE and it's fully up-to-date with no broken packages, your > problem seems to be that you are holding obsolete/orphan packages, you may > want to use Synaptic to look at your system and do some investigating as to > why dependence are not being met. This was sage advice, Jimmy. I had never used Synaptic much before, but the local or obsleted tab in conjunction with searching dpkg -l is a boon. In my case, it appears the root of the problems are caused by bitrot. I probably need to come up with some method of rebuilding my sid boxes every so often. Prior to this, my rebuilds were done in 2000 and 2007...Maybe if I am going to run sid, I need to plan for an annual rebuild of the system...At least the workstations... --b
