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