On 2014-03-29 18:35 +0100, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > Thanks! Finally got the new machine set up to try the crossgrading, and > everything worked just fine. There's just one issue remaining: a huge > number of i386 packages on the machine show dependencies on either apt > or dpkg, so any attempt to upgrade reinstalls the i386 apt and dpkg. Is > there an easy way around this, or do I need to plan on replacing all of > these packages specifying amd64?
Normally there is no need to do this, at least not for packages depending on dpkg, because dpkg is "Multi-Arch: foreign". > Here's an example from the end of the list of conflicts I got: > > texlive-pictures : Depends: dpkg (>= 1.14.18) but it is not going to be > installed. > module-init-tools : PreDepends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2) but it is not going to be > installed. Those packages are actually achitecture-independent, so there is no amd64 version of them. > The following actions will resolve these dependencies: > > Install the following packages: > 1) apt [0.9.16.1 (testing, unstable)] > 2) dpkg [1.17.6 (testing, unstable)] You have the amd64 version of dpkg installed, but which version of apt do you have? An architecture mismatch between apt and dpkg might confuse the former, I suppose. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87lhvsoou1....@turtle.gmx.de