I have a Debian stable system, but I'm thinking unstable might be in my future.
This morning I thought I'd perform the simple task of compiling pan from cvs. Trying to do the autoconf / make thing led me to install several packages, which required even more packages. I through up my hands when I needed a new glib, which required a new libc, which wouldn't install due to some other failed dependency. Okay, I'm thinking that stable is just too painful and maybe I should be using testing. Reading through the archives, I'm rather scared to move to testing. Seems many people end up with something broken when they attempt this. But, soldiering on.... I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. I did an 'apt-get update'. But when I attempt to do an 'apt-get upgrade', I get the following error: 45 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 229 not upgraded. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: debianutils: PreDepends: libc6 (>= 2.1.97) but 2.1.3-18 is to be installed E: Internal Error, InstallPackages was called with broken packages! bear:~# So now I seem to have a half-broken system that can't be upgraded. Advice? ---- Robert S. Koss, Ph.D. | Training and Mentoring Senior Consultant | Object Oriented Design Object Mentor, Inc. | C++, Java www.objectmentor.com | Extreme Programming
