On Sunday 19 July 2020 13:38:22 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 19 iul 20, 12:47:45, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Did that Andrei, updated apt-get, apt-get now gives a reason. > > Depends on 2 more packages, but adding them to the apt-get install > > line gets this: > > If APT can't find a solution adding more packages to the install line > won't help. > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > libalien-wxwidgets-perl : Depends: libwxgtk3.0-dev (< 3.0.3~) but > > 3.0.4+dfsg-4~bpo9+1 is to be installed > > Depends: libwxgtk-media3.0-dev (< 3.0.3~) > > but 3.0.4+dfsg-4~bpo9+1 is to be installed > > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > > > I'm about out of patience for the day. I have been screwing with > > this since about 5AM, and its now 12:45 local. And I am damned > > tired of apt-gets inability to name the package thats breaking it. > > Considering how your sources.list looked like there's a non-zero > probability your system is in an inconsistent state due to packages > from stretch-backports that shouldn't be there. > > The easiest way to find all installed packages from backports is to > run > > aptitude search '?narrow(?installed,?archive(backports))' > > > Yes, I know you wrote you don't trust 'aptitude', this is just a > search :) > > Kind regards, > Andrei
that spits out about 3 or 4 lines of text and blanks it, in about 100 millisecs, and will not redirect to |less. No line feeds IOW. I don't read at 20k wpm, so I've no clue what its trying to tell me. Thanks Andrei. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
