On Monday 26 June 2017 07.19:19 Greg Madden wrote:
One option that I found useful when installing from
cli, "-s" or apt-get
-s intall xxx will run through the install process without installing
any packages.
Yes, it prevents deleting things but does not tell you how to prevent it...
I have stopped using dmo repos, eventualy something breaks, esp when I
compile something..a needed library depends is the wrong version
Probably right. Unfortunately the "strictly free" option of Debian is one
thing I don't always follow
greg
Anyway, as far, my results are as follow:
Trying to correct the situation with aptitude failed (probably my fault) and
resulted in the removal of many things (but not TDE itself). I restored my
backup of end of may on my system partition and updated: worked. So I must
have screwed things up some time this month.
Same try in Devuan resulted in TDE removal. After that it was impossible to
reinstall it (unsatisfied dependancies). So there too I restored but the
update problems remain. I'll have to look further, but as Devuan went from
RC2 to 1.0, I don't know if you can just "update" from the first to the
second. No production system anyway so I probably better install new and
clean.
Thanks for all the help,
Thierry