On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:43:11 -0400 (EDT), Mark Fletcher wrote: > > For over a week now I've been unable to upgrade wheezy. I do aptitude > update as root, which is fine, then also as root do aptitude safe- > upgrade. When I do that, it says "resolving dependencies" and the open > and closed statistics start going up. Right now open is at about 34000 > and closed is at 29000. Defer is at 329 and conflict is at 62. It just > sits there with open and closed ticking steadily up, and never seems > to finish. > > This doesn't feel right to me. I am not sure what else to post in the > way of info as aptitude doesn't even get to the stage of producing > interesting output before going into this endless-looking process if > ostensibly resolving dependencies. Could my system's notion of package > relationships have got messed up somehow, and if so how can I clean it > up? Any help appreciated. > > Machine is self-built intel core i7 920 with 8Gb of Ram and an nVidia > GeForce 9800 GTX+ based graphics card. It's about 2 years old. I > originally installed squeeze which had recently gone into Testing at > the time, and upgraded using aptitude full-upgrade to wheezy shortly > after squeeze became stable. Since upgrading, for a few weeks, > everything was fine until about a week ago when I noticed I couldn't > update as described above. I left it for a week thinking it was a > package dependency prob that would fix itself eventually, but it > doesn't seem to be doing so. > > Any help appreciated.
Mark, I had the same problem about a week ago. The solution is to do a full-upgrade instead of a safe-upgrade. The problem is caused by libre-office packages taking the place of open-office packages. full-upgrade allows packages to be deleted, safe-upgrade does not. With full-upgrade the dependencies can be resolved by giving permission to delete a couple of open office packages that are functionally replaced by a couple of libre office packages, IIRC. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/106426833.1750138.1301249543138.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com