Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache). [SOLVED]

2010-01-20 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I ended up using aptitude safe-upgrade and it gave me no trouble. On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 13:35, Virgo Pärna wrote: >    You need to have package installed, that provides phpapi-20060613. > php5-cgi or  php5-cli should also work. I have both -cgi and -cli. >    I guess, that it is pretty much

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-20 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:08:45 +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Ok, i'm getting somewhere: > > # aptitude why apache2-mpm-prefork > i php-mdb2 Dependsphp-pear (>= 5.2.0-8) > p php-pear Dependsphp5-common (>= > 5.2.12.dfsg.1-2) > p A php5-common

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-18 16:35:51, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 18 January 2010 14:30:50 Tony Nelson wrote: > > On 10-01-18 09:08:45, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > > Ok, i'm getting somewhere: > > > > > > # aptitude why apache2-mpm-prefork > > > i php-mdb2 Dependsphp-pear (>= 5.2

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 18 January 2010 14:30:50 Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-01-18 09:08:45, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > Ok, i'm getting somewhere: > > > > # aptitude why apache2-mpm-prefork > > i php-mdb2 Dependsphp-pear (>= 5.2.0-8) > > p php-pear Dependsphp5-common (

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-18 09:08:45, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Ok, i'm getting somewhere: > > # aptitude why apache2-mpm-prefork > i php-mdb2 Dependsphp-pear (>= 5.2.0-8) > p php-pear Dependsphp5-common (>= > 5.2.12.dfsg.1-2) > p A php5-common Recommends

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 17 January 2010 16:27:52 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > I don't know why would any package depend specifically on apache > instead of on a webserver (which i have), and apt-cache rdepends > didn't show me anything interesting. Try (aptitude why $package_it_wants_to_install) or (aptitude why-not

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Well using aptitude safe-upgrade didn't prompt for any x- or apache-related packages. Thanks, Nuno -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto /\ ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Ok, i'm getting somewhere: # aptitude why apache2-mpm-prefork i php-mdb2 Dependsphp-pear (>= 5.2.0-8) p php-pear Dependsphp5-common (>= 5.2.12.dfsg.1-2) p A php5-common Recommends php5-suhosin i A php5-suhosin Dependsphpa

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,18.Jan.10, 13:25:59, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > So, if i change now to aptitude will all my problems be solved? No, but it might help you find the real problem. Try aptitude why to see why a package would be installed. It is also safe to switch to aptitude now, it shouldn't conflict with

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:04, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > you should probably be using aptitude, but regardless, you have > installed, at some point, xserver-xorg-video-all, which depends on all > the video-* packages. remove that package and directly install the > drivers you actually need.

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
> On 2010-01-17 at 17:27:52 -0500, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > My latest apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade wants to install > > [...] *all* the xserver-xorg-video-* packages, you should probably be using aptitude, but regardless, you have installed, at some point, xserver-xorg-video-all, which d

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 01:34, Stephen Powell wrote: > > You haven't said whether you are running Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid, Oh... Sid actually. > apt-get --no-install-recommends dist-upgrade Nope, same result... thanks though. -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto /\ ascii ri

Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

2010-01-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2010-01-17 at 17:27:52 -0500, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > My latest apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade wants to install too > much cruft for me, namely apache2-mpm-prefork and *all* the > xserver-xorg-video-* packages, along with some others. Usually it just > wants to install one or two, keep a f