Re: How do you get aptitude to do what you want?

2009-06-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:47:30PM -0600, lee was heard to say: > Well, I tried that once, but there didn't seem to be any option > available that would solve the problem. If this is true, then either you found a bug in aptitude or there just is no way to solve your dependency problem. I coul

Re: How do you get aptitude to do what you want?

2009-06-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:13:38PM -0600, lee was heard to say: > I'm trying to upgrade my testing installation, but aptitude keeps yelp > in its current state, claiming that upgrading yelp would break a > dependency with gman. But gman is not even installed. Do you mean the output from "full-

Re: How do you get aptitude to do what you want?

2009-06-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:37:35PM -0600, lee wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 09:12:35PM +, s. keeling wrote: > > > Aptitude always acts so weird :( What's the problem with it? Dselect > > > always just did what I wanted it to do. > > > > I've always suspected that apt/aptitude's not at fau

Re: How do you get aptitude to do what you want?

2009-06-24 Thread Brian Nelson
lee writes: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:58:21PM -0500, green wrote: >> lee wrote at 2009-06-23 14:13 -0500: >> > I'm trying to upgrade my testing installation, but aptitude keeps yelp >> > in its current state, claiming that upgrading yelp would break a >> > dependency with gman. But gman is not

Re: How do you get aptitude to do what you want?

2009-06-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 15:47, lee wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:58:21PM -0500, green wrote: >> lee wrote at 2009-06-23 14:13 -0500: >> > I'm trying to upgrade my testing installation, but aptitude keeps yelp >> > in its current state, claiming that upgrading yelp would break a >> > dependenc

Re: How do you get aptitude to do what you want?

2009-06-23 Thread green
lee wrote at 2009-06-23 17:47 -0500: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:58:21PM -0500, green wrote: > > Initially I was not aware of the accept and reject options given by the > > resolver, so when something was broken, I just kept pressing '.' to run > > through > > lots of options. Keys 'a' and 'r'

Re: How do you get aptitude to do what you want?

2009-06-23 Thread lee
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:58:21PM -0500, green wrote: > lee wrote at 2009-06-23 14:13 -0500: > > I'm trying to upgrade my testing installation, but aptitude keeps yelp > > in its current state, claiming that upgrading yelp would break a > > dependency with gman. But gman is not even installed. >

Re: How do you get aptitude to do what you want?

2009-06-23 Thread lee
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 09:12:35PM +, s. keeling wrote: > > Aptitude always acts so weird :( What's the problem with it? Dselect > > always just did what I wanted it to do. > > I've always suspected that apt/aptitude's not at fault. I seldom run > into this stuff, I suspect, by simply esche

Re: How do you get aptitude to do what you want?

2009-06-23 Thread green
lee wrote at 2009-06-23 14:13 -0500: > I'm trying to upgrade my testing installation, but aptitude keeps yelp > in its current state, claiming that upgrading yelp would break a > dependency with gman. But gman is not even installed. One thing that has helped me with aptitude is actually using the

Re: How do you get aptitude to do what you want?

2009-06-23 Thread s. keeling
lee : > > I'm trying to upgrade my testing installation, but aptitude keeps yelp > in its current state, claiming that upgrading yelp would break a > dependency with gman. But gman is not even installed. > > When I mark yelp as upgradeable, it says that it would break > scrollkeeper. So I te

How do you get aptitude to do what you want?

2009-06-23 Thread lee
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my testing installation, but aptitude keeps yelp in its current state, claiming that upgrading yelp would break a dependency with gman. But gman is not even installed. When I mark yelp as upgradeable, it says that it would break scrollkeeper. So I tell it to purge scroll