(Apologies if this is not the correct place to post (is there an apt-user or aptitude-user list?), but it's been helpful in past.)
As detailed @ http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=99035 recently I successfully upgraded a box with Linux Mint Debian Edition Update Pack 3 (with which I've been a happy ubuntu refugee) to the recently-announced LMDE UP4. Saturday (14 Apr 2012) I tried to do this on another box (after again doing both a full duplicity backup and a clonezilla). mintupdate (which I launched, as before, from console with `gksudo mintupdate &`) just kept dying, silently, in many different places. I tried again Sunday (15 Apr) night, with same results. Eventually I gave up, and went back to aptitude, launched via `sudo aptitude update ; sudo aptitude full-upgrade` aptitude did not die silently! and chugged on until finished. However, on finish it reported, at the end of a very long scroll (thank you, gnome-terminal :-) > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of with regard to 35 different packages (followed by details for each one) before ending with > Errors were encountered while processing: # sorted by me > brasero > evince > file-roller > gconf2 > gdm3 > gnome-applets > gnome-bluetooth > gnome-control-center > gnome-disk-utility > gnome-panel > gnome-power-manager > gnome-session > gnome-settings-daemon > gnome-themes-standard > gnome-user-share > gvfs > gvfs-backends > gvfs-bin > libgconf2-4 > libgnome2-common > murrine-themes > nautilus > nautilus-actions > nautilus-open-terminal > nautilus-sendto > nautilus-share > network-manager > network-manager-gnome > network-manager-pptp > network-manager-pptp-gnome > rhythmbox > rhythmbox-plugins > totem > totem-mozilla > totem-plugins > > Current status: 29 broken [+29], 1128 updates [-112], 35600 new [-1]. Obviously I'm gonna need network-manager* and gnome* and will very much want most of the rest. How to fix? Note that, as noted above, I can (presumably :-) rollback to a working LMDE UP3 if required. Your assistance is appreciated, Tom Roche <tom_ro...@pobox.com> -- 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/87aa2br0ee....@pobox.com
