On Sunday 17 November 2013 12:08:05 Lisi Reisz wrote: > Following Andrei's advice, I used dpkg --audit to sort out problems > with network connections, which it did very successfully. > > In the process, I discovered that there was quite a list of > unconfigured packages. These I have been trying to configure. In > the process I have unleashed a dependency hell, not only worse than > I have ever seen, but worse than I ever imagined. > > Is there a trick? Other than trying one after another going > backwards, and hoping that I will not either go round and round in > circles, or meet a demand for a version that I can see no hope of > installing. > > Here is the list as it currently stands. Help! > http://paste.ubuntu.com/6431514/ > > In fact, is this sensibly soluble, or should I give up on upgrading > and reinstall?
To answer my own question, no, it is not sensibly soluble, and I should certainly reinstall. I have explored some more. It did not, and would not, upgrade to Wheezy. According to uname -a it was 6.0.8, not 7 at all. So I checked the sources.list, all correctly identified as wheezy, ran update again, and tried to run apt-get upgrade. Got told that there were lots of broken dependencies, and to run -f install, which then refused to run. So I gave up and have now started a reinstallation. I apologise for the lack of verbatim error mesages. I didn't think to keep them, and as I said, it is already reinstalling. :-( Sorry, archives, Lisi -- 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/201311171515.25652.lisi.re...@gmail.com