On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 06:19:17PM +0000, ael via Dng wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 11:34:08AM -0500, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:
> >
> > I've done this many times before, but instead of the routine I
> > expected I get a series of lines like this:
> >
> > Resolving dependencies...
> > open: 85586; closed: 99212; defer: 119; conflict: 233
> >
> > These keep repeating with the number for open and closed
> > incrementing. After a long time I tried this:
> >
> > # aptitude --full-resolver -y
>
> This is a "feature" of aptitude: I have occasionally hit this exploding
> complexity. It is hopeless. Just use apt instead.
>
> Aptitude is really usefull, but it has this possibility to disappear
> down a black hole of dependencies from which it can never(?) excape.
> Clean up with apt, and then aptitude can become useful again. Aptitude
> can spot redundant packages that apt misses, so both are useful.
>
> ael

Sorry I not elaborate my question; I used apt first and then
tried aptitude.

I don't want to install elszewhere on the disk or to another disk on
the machine, but get the upgrade to work. I'm like to know why I
get the unending dependency messages. These are obviously not the
result of unmet dependencies. I need to troubleashoot somehoe.

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     Haines Brown