On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are several frontends to APT (apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, etc.), > which one do you use?
aptitude. AFAIR, it was the recommended one for Debian. (A while back, I remember that Debian recommended aptitude and Ubuntu wanted apt. > Please copy-paste full commands and outputs, otherwise we can only > guess. Also output of 'apt-cache policy' would be very useful A sample of an attempted upgrade on my wife's sid machine is available at http://paste.debian.net/156058/. Note that the following unmet dependencies: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libavutil51: Conflicts: libavutil-extra-51 but 4:0.8.0.1+b1 is to be installed. libavutil-extra-51: Conflicts: libavutil51 but 5:0.10-0.0 is installed. open: 47; closed: 361; defer: 4; conflict: 4 resulted in wanting to uninstall all or most of KDE4. The second choice was Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n open: 102; closed: 415; defer: 9; conflict: 15 .The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: 1) libasound2-plugins 2) pulseaudio 3) pulseaudio-esound-compat 4) pulseaudio-module-x11 Keep the following packages at their current version: 5) libavutil-extra-51 [Not Installed] Leave the following dependencies unresolved: 6) speech-dispatcher recommends pulseaudio and the third was Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n open: 123; closed: 486; defer: 21; conflict: 32 .The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Keep the following packages at their current version: 1) libasound2-plugins [1.0.24-3 (now)] 2) libavutil-extra-51 [Not Installed] ...which should have been, I would think, the first choice. Finally, # apt-cache policy Package files: 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status release a=now 500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid/non-free Translation-en 500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid/main Translation-en 500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid/contrib Translation-en 990 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid/contrib amd64 Packages release o=Debian,a=unstable,n=sid,l=Debian,c=contrib origin ftp.debian.org 990 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid/non-free amd64 Packages release o=Debian,a=unstable,n=sid,l=Debian,c=non-free origin ftp.debian.org 990 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages release o=Debian,a=unstable,n=sid,l=Debian,c=main origin ftp.debian.org 1001 http://downloads.opsera.com/opsview-community/latest/apt/ lenny/main amd64 Packages release a=stable,n=lenny,c=main origin downloads.opsera.com 1001 http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable/non-free amd64 Packages release o=Opera Software ASA,a=stable,n=squeeze,l=The Opera web browser,c=non-free origin deb.opera.com 990 http://mirror.its.dal.ca/debian-multimedia/ unstable/main amd64 Packages release v=None,o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,a=unstable,n=sid,l=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,c=main origin mirror.its.dal.ca 990 http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ unstable/main amd64 Packages release v=None,o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,a=unstable,n=sid,l=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,c=main origin www.debian-multimedia.org Pinned packages: --b -- 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/cakmzw+y8bretsga98aydetftueuqnhpxt5t23ft5txvuopp...@mail.gmail.com
