On 16/10/2021 18:27, R. Ramesh wrote:
What is the fix I need to do? Remove my preferences.d/multimedia for
deb-multimedia?
My apologies, I am not very good with apt and dependencies and this may
be something straightforward. Can you give me more detail on what I need
to fix?
BTW, I did not have preferences.d/multimedia at all to start with.
However, there was an issue with mythtv installation that I could not
explain. At that time someone (here) told me that I need to pin priority
of packages from deb-multimedia to make things work. I have kept it
since. I have no desire to install older packages just because it is
straight from debian vs. deb-multimedia. I expect those two repositories
to be already aware of situation like mine and therefore handle these
without my preferences.d entries. So, I am perfectly ok to remove my
preferences.d/multimedia
Yes, just comment out all pins you placed in preferences.d/ folder. Then
issue:
sudo apt update
And then see what packages will be upgraded due to multimedia taking
priority over debian repositories:
apt list --upgradable
You can publish list here. Hopefully it's not drastic. If you decide to
upgrade all listed packages and keep configuration that way, you will
always have freshest packages from multimedia, updated regularly by
multimedia maintainers, whoever they are - not sure who is behind
multimedia repository, because I don't use it.
If you are not comfortable with it, remove multimedia repository and
downgrade packages which versions are not from Debian. Your current
situation (packages which will never be updated) have to be resolved
either way.
Also did my install of specific version made those packages to be held
in that version? My report from apt-mark seem to show a lot of packages
to be installed manually even though I only installed two packages of
specific versions. May be I am not using right flags for apt-mark to get
my info.
How do I know my specific install made an auto installed package to be
marked as manual? More importantly, is is possible to manually fix
dependencies like I did, but still retain all flags as if they are
installed normally by apt/aptitude?
We can deal with that later, please decide if you are keeping multimedia
or not, then we can act and make final clean-up accordingly.
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