On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:18:01 +0000 Javier Barroso <javibarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> El mar., 15 de septiembre de 2015 19:38, Joe <j...@jretrading.com> > escribió: > > On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:21:17 +0200 > am...@tiscali.it wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > I am running Debian sid since 2006. When I type in > > aptitude dist-upgrade I have been getting the below messages. To fix > > it, please, is it just question of time (something related to KDE 5 > > transitional packages)? > > > > It's not just KDE, and it's been going for a couple of months already. > I currently have 124 packages which are not upgradable, there were > over two hundred a couple of weeks ago. > > I have 2 debian sid desktops and the two are updated. No package is > hold, and full upgrade. I have not any KDE package, but have xfce, > and GNOME > > Which 124 packages are not upgradable? About half are KDE-related. I don't use the DE, but I do use k3b and a few other KDE applications. Libreoffice is currently in trouble, as it has been twice in the last month or so. gnupg2 and gnupg-agent have bugs, as does openssl. openssl has had at least one bug for a couple of months. > > Tracking https://release.debian.org/transitions/ helps to upgrade > when you have problems with upgrade. > > Since gcc transition I had to hold some packages to make apt happy to > upgrade. But I unhold them when its transitions are finish. > > Did you try apt upgrade , and then apt full-upgrade? I normally use aptitude for routine upgrades, but it can't manage this one. It used to be the case that aptitude would spend literally hours trying to calculate a large upgrade, but it now runs for a while and asks if I want to keep trying. It still can't find a solution after three or four tries. apt-get dist-upgrade comes up with a solution, but wants to remove forty or fifty packages, including gimp, which I use regularly. It may be possible to install it again afterwards, apt-get is fairly brutal and simple-minded, but then again it may not. The problem is the set of packages and my architecture, which is amd64. I have two 32-bit installations which I can upgrade without problems, so presumably openssl is OK on 32-bit. The 32-bit installations are smaller, one on a netbook and one on a USB hard drive. It is my workstation which is 64-bit, with over four thousand packages installed, which probably isn't helping. Now and then I have a poke around with Synaptic, and I found four or five packages which could be individually upgraded tonight, with removed libraries being replaced by new ones. For everything else, when I select a package for upgrade, there is a sea of red where other packages have to be removed... -- Joe
