On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:56:30 -0500 Rick Pasotto <r...@niof.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:46:32PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 09:42:26AM -0500, Rick Pasotto <r...@niof.net> was > > heard to say: > > > There are several packages that, when I try to upgrade them, aptitude > > > tells me that doing so would break many other packages. For these other > > > packages aptitude says: > > > > > > Depends: libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0) but it is not installable > > > > What this means is that the solution to your dependencies that > > aptitude calculated didn't leave libglib1.2 on your system. Probably > > the message should say "it is not going to be installed", not > > "it is not installable". > > > > In order to give you a more specific answer I'd need to know what you > > were trying to upgrade and ideally see all the output from aptitude. > > After reading Carlos Sousa's reply I was able to figure out a little > more what's happening. I get hesitant when aptitude tells me it wants to > remove programs that I use. > > Anyway, I see that xmms is replaced by xmms2 and that qiv will upgrade > with libglib1.2ldbl. My only remaining problem is multi-gnome-terminal, > which is not in lenny. Why not? There are several reasons I prefer > multi-gnome-terminal to gnome-terminal: See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460784 It apparently died upstream, and had to be removed from Debian due to dependency on incompatible (newer) Gnome libs. Cheers, -- Carlos Sousa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
