I think I've hit about the same point.. The error seems to be coming from a conflict between the packages from the dist-upgrade and the ones done manually..
I wonder if there's a way to "protect" a certain package from the updater? - Michael > From: Jerry Rubinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Discussion about mythtv > <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:14:41 -0400 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Discussion about mythtv <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] apt-get on FC3 still broken? > > On 21/07/05, J. Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've read several messages over the last few weeks that doing a >> dist-upgrade on FC3 results in apt-get being removed from your system >> >> Well, that happened to me last night on a fresh install of FC3- I've >> lost my apt. >> >> I searched high and low, but couldn't find a fix for the problem (or >> at least one that I could understand.) >> >> Could someone tell me how to fix this, in layman's terms? I've >> installed a few mythTV systems on Fedora, but I'm still very much of a >> linux novice. >> >> Do I need to use FC4, or is there an easy solution for my FC3 system? > > I'm currently in the midst of struggling through this myself, and I > thought I figured out something that works by putting together two > suggestions from different posts by Axel on the atrpms mailing list. > > In step 5 of Jarod's guide, in between the apt-get update and apt-get > dist-upgrade, I tried this: > > apt-get install apt atrpms-package-config fedora-release beecrypt > > This seemed to complete ok, so then I did an apt-get dist-upgrade, > which got to the point of figuring out how much space it needed to > install the downloaded packages on the file system, and then said "E: > Error while running transaction" when it got up to xorg-x11-tools. At > least apt-get is still there, but now I'm stuck. > > -Jerry > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
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