Re: Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

2016-07-04 Thread Bill Harris
Lisi Reisz writes: > I would do the dist-upgrade first and clear up any mess remaining afterwards. Thanks, Lisi. I was coming to that conclusion, too, but I was looking for any sort of confirmation that I wasn't guaranteed to brick the machine. I'll report back,

Re: Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

2016-07-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 04 July 2016 21:52:49 Bill Harris wrote: > Gary Dale writes: > > On 04/07/16 03:23 PM, Bill Harris wrote: > >>> The simplest solution would be to reinstall the offending > >>> packages. Apt-get doesn't have that option but aptitude does. I can't > >>> try this at

Re: Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

2016-07-04 Thread Bill Harris
Bill Harris writes: > - I have yet to do the `apt dist-upgrade` (I downloaded all the packages > and then quit), so I've got to do that at some time. > > - My question was whether I > > - reinstall the packages first, and then do the dist-upgrade later, or

Re: Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

2016-07-04 Thread Bill Harris
Gary Dale writes: > On 04/07/16 03:23 PM, Bill Harris wrote: >>> The simplest solution would be to reinstall the offending >>> packages. Apt-get doesn't have that option but aptitude does. I can't >>> try this at home but it may resolve the conflicts. Install aptitude >>>

Re: Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

2016-07-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 04/07/16 03:23 PM, Bill Harris wrote: Gary Dale writes: On 04/07/16 12:32 PM, Bill Harris wrote: Summary: emacs24(1 bug), dbus(1 bug), gnome-settings-daemon(1 bug), libxml2(1 bug), debhelper(1 bug), openbsd-inetd(1 bug), smartmontools(1 bug), ruby-hpricot(1

Re: Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

2016-07-04 Thread Bill Harris
Gary Dale writes: > On 04/07/16 12:32 PM, Bill Harris wrote: >> Summary: >> emacs24(1 bug), dbus(1 bug), gnome-settings-daemon(1 bug), libxml2(1 bug), >> debhelper(1 bug), openbsd-inetd(1 bug), smartmontools(1 bug), ruby-hpricot(1 >> bug), cdrdao(1 bug),

Re: Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

2016-07-04 Thread Bill Harris
Cindy-Sue Causey writes: > I've used "apt-get install --reinstall" successfully a couple times > during issues. From "man apt-get", this flag's description is: > > "Re-install packages that are already installed and at the newest version." I thought I had seen that

Re: Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

2016-07-04 Thread Brian
On Mon 04 Jul 2016 at 15:09:35 -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 7/4/16, Gary Dale wrote: > > > > The simplest solution would be to reinstall the offending packages. > > Apt-get doesn't have that option but aptitude does. I can't try this at > > home but it may resolve

Re: Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

2016-07-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 7/4/16, Gary Dale wrote: > On 04/07/16 12:32 PM, Bill Harris wrote: >> I updated one laptop a month or two ago using the process on >> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html, >> and it worked smoothly. Then I tried the same thing

Re: Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

2016-07-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 04/07/16 12:32 PM, Bill Harris wrote: I updated one laptop a month or two ago using the process on https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html, and it worked smoothly. Then I tried the same thing yesterday on a second laptop, except that I forgot to get

Wheezy to Jessie update problem: packages with bugs

2016-07-04 Thread Bill Harris
I updated one laptop a month or two ago using the process on https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html, and it worked smoothly. Then I tried the same thing yesterday on a second laptop, except that I forgot to get rid of a wheezy backports entry; instead, I