On Wed, 2025-02-26 at 20:41 +1300, Lee Hinkleman wrote: > Hi debian-user: > Updates of Trixie stop on a technical issue, as quoted below. > Thank you. > Sincerely, > Lee > > > " > DDependency resolution failed: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: libkdecorations3-6: > Breaks: libkdecorations2-6 but 4:6.2.5-1 is to be installed >
Yesterday, I had no upgrades at all. Early this morning, I encountered a similar "unmet dependencies" block for VLC's vlc-bin and vlc-plugin- skins2. I figured something out a few years ago while hitting the same issue BUT then debootstraps hours later installed the exact same packages just fine. So I started deleting the problem child packaqes one by one while making sure doing so didn't demand major packages such as the kernel be deleted, too. It WORKS!! Pretty much every time for me so this morning I deleted the vlc-plugin-skins2 package by itself then ran upgrade again. There were suddenly 62 packages that then upgraded. They were not referenced, they were not seen at all until that VLC package was deleted. That was a new oddity in this. End of the story is that I then reinstall whatever showstopping package had to be deleted. Memory recall is that doing so also works every time, too. DISCLAIMER: PLEASE be careful if trying this [workaround] as a newbie user at Linux. Just make sure every package that might be momentarily deleted doesn't destroy the entire operating system. Debian-User is always a few keyboard clicks away if a User isn't sure about any given package's importance to the entire operating system's survival. As always, thank you, Developers and Maintainers! I've been using Linux and Debian a very long time. Every single day, I still marvel at the cumulative success of package interoperability while watching apt-get perp its magic. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed! *
