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Autor: Hendrik Boom
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Temat: Re: [DNG] aptitude gone mad with installation requests
On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 10:37:48PM +0100, Florian Zieboll wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Dec 2016 15:46:00 -0500
> Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
>
> > I tried using aptitude in interactive more to do a routine update and
> > upgrade. It complains that there are broken packages and when I ask
> > to examine the situation it starts trying to resolve stuff and counts
> > opwn, closed, etc. conflicts.
>
> That sounds (reads) like a temporary confusion due to mixed sources in
> your sources.list and probably some apt-pinning, in combination with
> 'aptitude update' having failed to get some index files.
>
> I'd re-run 'aptitude update' and check its output before attempting to
> upgrade or install any packages. As soon as all index files can be
> downloaded, the problem should disappear.


Before I got this message, I tried
    apt update
    apt upgrade
and everything worked sanely.  But aptitude is still misbehaving.


-- hendrik