[mythtv-users] Upgrading to 0.23.1

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Sat Sep 4 23:49:20 UTC 2010


On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 9/4/2010 2:48 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>>
>> You might give "aptitude upgrade" a shot instead of apt-get..  I find
>> it doesn't "keep back" packages like apt-get does a lot of times.
>>
>> -Greg
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> Apt-get will keep back packages usually when it has to add new packages, or
> dependency issues aren't met.  Do an apt-get -s dist-upgrade. dist-upgrade
> will tell it to install those packages resolving dependency issues. -s is
> simulation, so it only shows you what it would do.
>
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> well, I ran "sudo aptitude upgrade" and got the following:
>
> hdevine at hdevine-desktop:/etc$ sudo aptitude upgrade
> W: The "upgrade" command is deprecated; use "safe-upgrade" instead.
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Writing extended state information... Done
> Resolving dependencies...
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   libmyth-0.23-0{a} mythgallery mythmovies mythmusic mythtv-backend{a}
>   mythtv-common{a} mythtv-frontend{a} mythtv-transcode-utils{a} mythvideo
>   mythweather
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   firefox-3.5{u} firefox-3.5-branding{u} libfftw3-3{u} libmyth-0.22-0{u}
>   xulrunner-1.9.1{u} xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support{u}
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 61.7MB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
>
>
> As you can see, it wants to remove some things, but still says that the myth
> packages will not be upgraded.  When I tried "sudo apt-get -s dist-upgrade",
> I got the same result as earlier: no packages added or removed, and the myth
> packages set to not be upgraded.
>
> Any ideas?
> Harry

Sounds like somehow your dependencies are messed up from either a
dist-upgrade or similar..  I'm pretty new to debian (so apt-get,
aptitude as well)..  Not quite sure how to fix it..


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