Sjoerd Hardeman <sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> writes: >> Current status: 8 broken [+8], 713 updates [-131]. >> >> What does that line mean. Do I need to investigate and fix whatever >> there are 8 broken of? > It means that eight packages have unmet dependencies. This is likely > because some leftover packages from lenny require packages that are no > longer available in squeeze. Use the aptitude ui to see which packages > are broken, or do a > aptitude search ~b > to get a list. This you can then fix. >> >> And the last item [-131] ... does it mean that -131 pkgs were >> unaffected or that I have -131 useless pkgs or ... > That 131 packages were upgraded, and the other 713 were not. This is > likely related to the 8 broken packages. This will require some manual > effort to fix the stuff.
First off, where do you get the information? Just accumulated experience or is the output of aptitude discussed at length somewhere? The 8 broken ones are a sort of mishmash of useless and some necessary: aptitude search ~b B A libcompress-zlib-perl - Transitional dummy package for Compress::Z B A libice-dev - X11 Inter-Client Exchange library (develop B perl-doc - Perl documentation B perl-modules - Core Perl modules B A xserver-xorg-core - Xorg X server - core server B A xsrvr-xorg-input-synaptics- Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server B A xserver-xorg-video-intel - X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display B A xserver-xorg-video-radeon - X.Org X server -- ATI Radeon display drive This install of debian is a vmware guest so the video card is svga No need of touch pads at all What might be required to get this cleaned up, and end up with a `clean' squeeze install? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y6ioonjz....@newsguy.com
