On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 08:23 +0000, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 03:00:41PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > > So since I don't have 'aptitude or aptitude-common' installed, why is > > apt-get > > trying to remove all my non-free programs? > > > > Does it need to remove the non-free stuff before it can upgrade ia32-libs > > ia32-libs-gtk? > > I suspect what is happening is the transition from ia32-libs to multiarch, and > the non-free 3rd party packages have not been updated to work with the > multiarch > way of doing things.
The disadvantage of upgrading from one release to the next release and the disadvantage of rolling releases. I can't speak for this particular case, but sometimes it seems to be less work to make a new install. Btw. the reason for me that perhaps will make me switch from Arch back to Debian. -- 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/1352882468.2103.58.camel@precise
