Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 05:51:05 -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
I am running a fresh install (two weeks ago) of Etch, and I have been
using synaptic to install and update packages.
As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude.
Aptitude tells me that there is a broken package, and suggested that,
because of dependency problems, I remove exim4, exim4-base,
exim4-daemon-light, ftp, netbase, nfs-common, ntp, ntp-simple, ntp-date,
openbsd-inetd, pidentd, telnet and I install nbstmp.
What is going on here? It appears to me that it is aptitude which needs
to be uninstalled. I suspect that the operation proposed by aptitude
would render my installation unusable and likely irreparable. My
inclination is to trust synaptic.
Did you try to do a "dist-upgrade" equivalent with synaptic lately? You
might run into the same issues then. (You do not give any details about
the aptitude commands that you tried.)
For example, the newest versions of several MTA packages conflict with
each other which could explain the exim4 - nbsmtp issue. Something
similar might be behind the rest of the things that aptitude wants to
do. Aptitude will explain the reasons for its intended actions if you
run it with the "-D" option.
I wish to thank everyone for the response. I did NOT allow aptitude to
do anything; I merely used the "examine" option to see the solution
which aptitude proposed. So my system still is running, and appears to
be in good order, despite the warning of Aptitude.
At this point (fresh install), the only non-Debian packages installed
are version 5 of Adobe Acroread and CrossOver Office (which is by the
primary developers of WINE).
I have been allowing Synaptic to upgrade packages almost on a daily
basis. The only problem Synaptic has encountered is a configuration
failure with emacs21.
I routinely used Aptitude for about two years, until I switched to
Synaptic. And several times while using Aptitude I have gotten into a
bind, as Osamu warns. This is another reason why I recommend Synaptic
for the new Debian user: he is less likely to get into trouble with
Synaptic. With Aptitude, one incorrect keystroke can bring about disaster.
RLH
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