On Sat July 14 2018 20:38:56 William Morder wrote:
Sorry, got to add my 2 cents' worth here. I
believe that this must be a
Devuan bug; there could be problems with slim and tdm-trinity, although I
think it is immaterial to my point here.
The reason I would trace it to Devuan is that I only ever ran apt-get
dist-upgrade; I never tried to install slim or xfce, nor libreoffice, etc.,
but these were installed automatically. I had assumed, wrongly, that I
would get only upgrades of what was already installed.
To upgrade existing packages use "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade".
"apt-get dist-upgrade" is only required in complex situations, e.g.
where other packages must be added or removed to accommodate package
upgrades. This normally only happens when upgrading to a new release.
Whenever "apt-get dist-upgrade" is needed it is important to carefully
check what apt-get proposes to do and determine to your own satisfaction
that the proposed actions are sensible, safe, and appropriate.
The information from "apt-get rdepends ..." and/or "aptitude why ..."
is the first step on the road to determining whether this is a Devuan
or Debian or PEBCAK problem.
--Mike