Hi, On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:53:16 -0500 "R. Ramesh" <rram...@verizon.net> wrote:
(...) > Nothing fancy. Installed debian 10 from USB and added multi-media and > installed mythfrontend. That is all I have done. > This is a NUC Pentium (N3700) box and not fancy at all. Here is my > kernel (...) > My apt-get/aptitude output showed clear differences between the two. > So, I am not convinced about your claim that they should do the same > thing on a stable release unless stable release itself was broken when > installing with debian-10.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso. it looks like what happens here is that the upgrade would replace installed versions of multimedia related packages from buster with those from deb-multimedia. Obviously apt-get and aptitude do not agree how to handle this situation. Installing those packages requires obviously to replace for example libcdio18 with libcdio19, which apt-get won't do with the "apt-get upgrade" command. I believe that most likely the root of the problem is, that no apt-pinning rule is defined for the deb-multimedia repo. To resolve this, you might consider to create a file like e.g. /etc/apt/preferences.d/multimedia . Here the content of that file looks like: Package: * Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,n=buster Pin-Priority: 332 Package: * Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,n=buster-backports Pin-Priority: 331 with the respective entries in my sources.list: deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org buster main non-free deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org buster-backports main non-free This should ensure that no such "accidental" upgrades will occur. Regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. Lots of people drink from the wrong bottle sometimes. -- Edith Keeler, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate unknown
