On 19/08/11 13:20, Tom Roche wrote: > > summary: I'm a new debian user
Not yet you're not - confused? You are still using Ubuntu. Debian makes potatoes. Ubuntu mashes the Debian potatoes, dries them, adds stuff, and repackages - to make a variety of potato based products. Mint uses Ubuntu instant potato mix as a basis for a vegetable based meal. Apparently the instructions on the side of the packages made by Ubuntu and Mint aren't very good - so people come here asking about potatoes.... > with some package breakage. I'd appreciate > > * assistance with my specific problem (i.e., give me a fish) > * general heuristics for debug package breakage (i.e., teach me to fish) > > details: I'm a longtime ubuntu user who switched last week to > > $ lsb_release -ds > Linux Mint Debian Edition > $ uname -rv > 2.6.39-2-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 5 02:51:22 UTC 2011 > > While I very much appreciate the better performance I'm getting on LMDE > (which is based on debian testing), I'm also appreciating the extent to > which ubuntu sheltered me from having to learn much about APT :-) So I'd > appreciate your assistance with debugging the following problem: The best way to learn apt is to use it :-) Aptitude != apt. > > me@it:~$ aptitude search ?broken >> iB acl - Access control list utilities >> iB coreutils - GNU core utilities >> iB cups - Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server >> iB libacl1-dev - Access control list static libraries and headers >> iB libarchive1 - Single library to read/write tar, cpio, pax, zip, >> iso9660, etc. >> iB libgnomevfs2-0 - GNOME Virtual File System (runtime libraries) >> iB libisofs6 - library to create ISO9660 images >> iB ntfs-3g - read-write NTFS driver for FUSE >> iB rsync - fast remote file copy program (like rcp) >> iB samba - SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix > <snipped> > > So I'm confused. Why does `aptitude` think these packages are broken? If > it's wrong (i.e., the packages are not broken), how do I correct its > misperception? If it's correct, how do I fix the packages, if `aptitude` > won't force install? > > Feel free to forward or to point me to FM to RT, But we have Really Fine Manuals here.... ;-p > and TIA, Tom Roche <tom_ro...@pobox.com> > > Mint != Debian, so you will get more relevant answers asking on Mint forums. Regardless of how helpful Debian users wish to be, we have little information on how Mint changes things - only that they do. In most cases your problems will be specific to Mint, and only confusing to Debian. I appreciate that Mint is regarded as Debian's red-headed step son - but even if someone here can help - it won't help the Mint community. I understand that you're trying to illustrate what you think is not working (ie. shown by Aptitude as broken.... but what is it that *is not* working? Are any of repositories that you use Debian repositories? NOTE: Debian style is not Debian. What does:- # apt-get update; apt-get -sf install output? When you've tried that (and noted the results), what does:- # apt-get -s install rsync output? Please paste both outputs to your post (with the other answers). Cheers -- "I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know he's got God on his side." ~ Bill Hicks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e4de67c.6020...@gmail.com
