* On 17-08-01 at 21:09 Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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> Have you tried searching the list archives?
>
Yes, but found nothing :/
[...]
>
> Are you running apt 0.5.3? That's out of testing. 0.3.19 in stable doesn't
> have support for /etc/apt/preferences.
I am running apt 0.5.3 for linux i386 compiled on Mar 7 2001 19:25:55
> > ,--- /etc/apt/preferences ---
> > | Package: *
> > | Pin: release a=testing
> > | Pin-Priority: 900
> > |
> > | Package: *
> > | Pin: release a=unstable
> > | Pin-Priority: 50
I am trying to do just the opposite (to have unstable for default and testing
for downgrading when necessary), so I changed testing to unstable and unstable
to testing.
> That should do it. You don't have anything commented out that you didn't
> show here, do you? That hoses things :(.
No nothing else
> > ,--- /etc/apt/sources.list ---
> > | deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian testing main contrib non-free
> > | deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian testing/non-US main contrib
> > non-free
> > |
> > | deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> > | deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian unstable/non-US main contrib
> > non-free
I have a few more entries in there...
> Even if you currently had unstable installed, by pinning unstable below 100
> you shouldn't be updating to it.
[...]
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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In my case it actually seems to get most of the dependancies from testing since
I could not do apt-get upgrade or apt-get install gnumeric, couse it claimed it
cannot find some dependancies or that the packages are not new enough. Here is
an example:
<shell output>
sudo apt-get install gnumeric
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnumeric: Depends: bonobo (>= 1.0.7) but 1.0.7-2 is to be installed
Depends: libgnome32 (>= 1.2.13-5) but 1.2.13-9 is to be installed
Depends: liborbit0 (>= 0.5.6) but 0.5.8-2 is to be installed
Depends: python-base but 1.5.2-16 is to be installed
Depends: gsfonts-x11 but 0.13 is to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages
</shell output>
This only happens when my sources.list includes the testing paths, but when I
comment them out and do apt-get update everything works like a charm.
Can someone please help me?
THX in advance!
B.
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