Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 02:11:24PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > | on Mon, 12 Apr 2004 02:02:06PM -0400, J F insinuated: > | > I don't have a specific answer to your problem, > | > but using aptitude seems to ease upgrade problems. > | > Also, having testing, unstable, and stable all in > | > /etc/apt/sources.list seems to get aptitude > | > to converge on a working solution. > | > | yeah, i do have all of them in there. i'm relatively new to aptitude, > | and have never been a convert, specifically because every time i try > | to install any one thing with it, it wants to upgrade the rest of my > | system and install at least 50 new packages. > > Big picture : > apt normally prefers the version of a package with the biggest number > aptitude in woody defaults to 'Aptitude::Auto-Upgrade "true"' > > As a result, when you have woody installed, have sarge (and/or sid) in > apt's sources list, and you run aptitude, then aptitude wants to > upgrade your system to sarge (and/or sid). > > I assume, from your comments, that you don't want that. There are > several factors at play here and you can choose what specific > semantics you want. I'll explain by telling about my system. > > I generally follow sarge, but not infrequently install packages from > sid. I like to see what version is in what release with 'apt-cache > policy'. Sometimes I don't want to upgrade all upgradeable packages > when I run aptitude in "gui" mode. As a result I have the following > setup : > 1) woody, sarge, sid all listed in apt's source list > 2) sarge preferred, followed by the installed version, followed > by woody, and never prefer sid specified in /etc/apt/prefereces. > 3) aptitude version from sarge, with 'Aptitude::Auto-Upgrade "false"' > (default in that version) > > I recommend using the aptitude in sarge over the one in woody because > it works correctly (usefully/conveniently) with Auto-Upgrade set to > false. (the woody version changes the 'auto' flag to 'manual' when > choosing to upgrade a package unless Auto-Upgrade chose to upgrade it) > > Also take a look at documentation regarding apt's preferences files. > > | i probably don't have it > | synched with something or other -- probably related to the error i see > | whenever i start it up: > | > | Apt errors > | W: Can't open Aptitude extended status file > > I've never seen this message (that I recall). My first guess, though, > is that you ran aptitude as a non-root user and as a result didn't > have permission to create /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates. > > HTH, > -D
Also, you can press F10 to bring up the menu and press "right cursor move" ("->") twice to highlight OPtions and then "down cursor move" key to highlight Miscellaneous and press spacebar on to remove [X] before phrase: "Automatically upgrade install Packages" . You can then search for the broken package by typing: /konqueror which would find the konqueror package. Type "carriage return" to see the things that it depends on or conflicts with. Type "?" for help. Type "+" to upgrade or '=" to hold at the current version of a package. _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]