Am Sonntag, 6. September 2015, 19:45:30 schrieb Joe: > I suspect it will be more than a few days. Unstable has been disrupted > for weeks, and aptitude full-upgrade still shrugs and says 'I can't do > it, do you want to have a try?' There are more than 150 packages stuck > at the moment, on a system with just over 4000 installed. > > Apt-get dist-upgrade wants to pull about seventy packages, but some are > libraries which will be replaced by new versions. Gimp and > gnome-mplayer are in the list, which I'm not willing to give up yet. If > I get bored, I might mess around with synaptic to see if I can upgrade > a few, but clearly there is still significant trouble. > > OK, I've got it down to 120 packages stuck, almost all KDE and > libreoffice, but with another small logjam around aptitude and > synaptic. I did hit a small jackpot, upgrading one minor package which > brought more than a dozen other packages with it, packages which > themselves wouldn't upgrade without a lot of grief. I have in the past > fixed logjams of twenty or thirty packages simply by doing the upgrades > in the correct order, a level of complexity beyond aptitude, but this > lot isn't going to go so easily. Things are improving, about a week ago > there were more than two hundred stuck, and as you say, all the > compiler-related stuff has cleared.
Thank you Joe, that makes things clearer. I almost thought, I was the only one with all the trouble. But now I see: It is really broken. Thank you for your details, really! Best Hans
