On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:51:14PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > 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.
I think he wasn't asking about upgrading to testing from stable, but rather about a routine upgrade, when he's already running testing. I have no idea what libnss-db does, so I'm afraid I can't give an helpful advice. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
