On Du, 16 mar 14, 10:16:26, John Magolske wrote: > Hi, > > For several weeks now when I do `aptitude dist-upgrade` there is: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > initscripts : Breaks: ifupdown (< 0.7.46) but 0.7.44 is installed. > [...] > The following actions will resolve these dependencies: > > Remove the following packages: > [...] > 5) ifupdown > > Since I use ifupdown to connect to the internet (among other things), > I really don't want to loose it. Until this is resolved I'm sticking > to `aptitude safe-upgrade` ...but it's been a while now, and I thought > ifupdown was relatively important, so I'm wondering what's going on > with this. Searching around I haven't come across much, but maybe I > haven't been looking in the right places.
aptitude's first proposed solution is not always optimal. Try a few more, you should get one that proposes upgrading ifupdown. Otherwise please post the output of 'apt-cache policy' and full output of 'aptitude --show-versions full-upgrade'. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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