On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:34:03PM -0700, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > I've noticed for awhile now that pretty much everything in testing is held > back when I go to do an apt-get upgrade. Today, as an emperiment, I tried > to manually apt-get install libc6 to break through the log jam, and > ulitimately I got this error: > > E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential > package libnss-db due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, > but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option. > E: Internal Error, Could not early remove libnss-db > > > Should I go ahead and do as suggested, or am I going to hose my system? > Did you try apt-get dist-upgrade first?
when I upgraded to testing I used: apt-get -f dist-upgrade That did everything except for libc6, but that's probably fixed now, as that was a few months back. Mike
