[mythtv-users] Upgrading to 0.23.1

Harry Devine lifter89 at comcast.net
Sun Sep 5 00:00:56 UTC 2010


  On 9/4/2010 7:49 PM, Greg Oliver wrote:
> 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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I wonder if upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 will help?  I hadn't done that yet 
since the main OS was working so well for me.

Harry



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