Виталий Филиппов <vitalif <at> yourcmc.ru> writes:
> > Try using aptitude instead of apt. It sometimes does a better job, and > I've tried and it offered me 100500 different insane ways of solving the > situation... :) that's why I don't use it, its solver seems really insane. > apt-get is far more rational :) Heh, true. > The single thing that I found aptitude useful for is finding and removing > packages that are unavailable in current debian release anymore :) I use dselect for that. During the transition (which seems to be mostly over now), I just used 'apt-get upgrade --with-new-packages' and a bunch of manual 'apt-get install libfoov5; apt-mark auto libfoov5' to help it along. Occasionally, set things on hold. I have this in apt.conf: debug::pkgproblemresolver "true"; APT::Install-Recommends "0"; Dpkg::Progress-Fancy "false"; The output of the pkgproblemresolver is virtually illegible, but sometimes helps tracking down stuff. bye, //mirabilos
