28 Apr
2011
28 Apr
'11
4:25 a.m.
On Wednesday 27 April 2011 07:55:22 pm Brad Alexander wrote:
I'm having an issue with my daughter's netbook
that I just upgraded from
lenny to squeeze. The main problem is that it is 2100 miles away. In any
case, I did the upgrade according to the squeeze release notes.
When I did the upgrade, I changed the sources.list to point to squeeze,
including trinity.
However, it deinstalled kde-trinity, kdemultimedia-trinity and
kdewebdev-trinity. So after the upgrade, I tried to reinstall.
# apt-get install kde-trinity kdemultimedia-trinity kdewebdev-trinity
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kdemultimedia-trinity : Depends: libarts1-xine-trinity (>=
4:3.5.12-0debian7+r1175295) but it is not going to be installed
kdewebdev-trinity : Depends: quanta-trinity (>=
4:3.5.12-0debian7+r1158456) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: kommander-trinity (>=
4:3.5.12-0debian7+r1158456) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
What do I need to do to get this reinstalled?
Thanks,
--b
What method did you use to upgrade? apt-get, aptitude, synaptic ? Using apt-get
from the cli has a couple of options.
The unmet dependencies could be caused by the method of upgrading,
'apt-get dist-upgrade' allows installation of new dependencies, 'apt-get
upgrade'
only upgrades existing packages. Also 'apt-get -f install' will try to
'fix' a
failed upgrade.
The release notes seem to prefer apt-get over aptitude, a reversal from the Lenny.
release. I normally try all cli install tools when something like this happens,
don't use gui stuff. My preferred package manager is still 'dselect' .
--
Peace,
Greg