On Saturday 14 December 2013 12:06 PM, Kailash Kalyani wrote:
On Friday 13 December 2013 02:32 AM, Reco wrote:
Hi.
On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:33:45 +0100
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 21:32 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
I experienced that synaptic for *buntu Saucy is broken, perhaps it's
for
Debian broken too. Sometimes nothing is inconsistent, but Synaptic
claims that a dependency should be broken. After closing and opening
Synaptic everything is ok.
If apt-get does work, than a not buggy Synaptic must work too ;).
apt, aptitude and synaptic handle package install conflicts differently.
These tools do the same in trivial situations like installing or
removing package from the main archive.
But, put a number of packages with the same name and different versions
(add versioned dependencies to the picture) - and these 3 tools start
behaving differently. Add the fact that any package in backports
archive has special version that is _lower_ that any version in main
archive - and sometimes these tools may produce funny results.
Basically, apt provides you with the most dumb solution possible
(works most of the time) - install what you want, upgrade dependencies.
Aptitude gives you multiple ways of installing package (and one has to
choose carefully) - install what you want, upgrade/downgrade
dependencies (and may remove something just for fun :).
Synaptic assumes that you are not lazy, and will use Ctrl+E (IIRC, may
be wrong) to force particular versions for needed packages.
So, it's possible to use Synaptic for the task, it just will violate
the great IBM principle - 'People should think, machine should work'.
Reco
Hi,
Apt-get gave me the following error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-686-pae : Breaks: initramfs-tools (< 0.110~)
but 0.109.1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
And so I installed initramfs-tools from wheezy-backports first and then
the linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-686-pae
However, was apt-get correct in not attempting to upgrade
initramfs-tools as well?
Thanks,
Kailash
FYI only.
My new install of the kernel caused VirtualBox to stop functioning:
I followed the following steps:
1. Installed the wheezy-backports version of VirtualBox (no change- the
kernel modules failed to start)
2. Tried to check versions of dkms - have the latest stable (no updates
in backports)
3. After looking through VirtualBox installation page
(http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02.html#install-linux-host)
I figured I was missing the headers for the new kernel.
4. sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.11-0.bpo.2-686-pae
followed by
sudo apt-get install virtualbox/wheezy-backports --reinstall
fixed the issue.
Hope this helps.
K.
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