Issue with apt!

**bidi** · 11-30-2005

It's pretty simple to explain, and I'm sure the answer is simple as well, but I just don't know where to go. I've both help and man page for apt-get and couldn't find anything.

My problem is that whenever I try to do anything with apt-get, it wants to remove, install, upgrade hundreds other packages that have nothing to do with anything. This happens both if I use the command like "apt-get" or Synaptic. Here's what it looks like:

Code:

DebLinux&#58;/home/bidi# apt-get install gdesklets
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed&#58;
  bug-buddy capplets-data eog epiphany-browser evolution evolution-data-server
  gcalctool gcc-4.0-base gconf-editor gconf2 gconf2-common gdm-themes gedit
  gedit-common gnome-applets gnome-applets-data gnome-backgrounds
  gnome-control-center gnome-cups-manager gnome-doc-utils gnome-games
  gnome-games-data gnome-media gnome-menus gnome-netstatus-applet gnome-panel
  gnome-panel-data gnome-system-monitor gnome-terminal gnome-terminal-data
  gnome-utils gnumeric gnumeric-common gstreamer0.8-cdparanoia gtkhtml3.6
  iso-codes libcamel1.2-0 libcupsys2 libcupsys2-gnutls10 libebook1.2-3
  libecal1.2-2 libedata-book1.2-2 libedata-cal1.2-1 libedataserver1.2-4
  libedataserverui1.2-4 libeel2-2 libeel2-data libegroupwise1.2-5 libexif12
  libgal2.4-0 libgal2.4-common libgconf2-4 libgcrypt11 libgnome-desktop-2
  libgnome-menu0 libgnomecupsui1.0-1 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common
  libgnutls12 libgoffice-1 libgoffice-1-common libgsf-1 libgsf-gnome-1
  libgtkhtml3.6-18 libgtksourceview-common libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgtop2-5
  libnautilus-burn1 libnspr4 libnss3 libpanel-applet2-0 librsvg2-2
  librsvg2-common libsoup2.2-8 libstdc++6 libwnck16 libxinerama1 libxklavier10
  libxml2-utils libxxf86misc1 libxxf86vm1 metacity mozilla-browser mozilla-psm
  nautilus-data python-gnome2 python-gnome2-extras python-libxml2
  python-numeric python-xml python2.3-gnome2 python2.3-gnome2-extras
  python2.3-libxml2 python2.3-pyorbit python2.3-xml system-tools-backends
  totem totem-xine unzip xsltproc yelp zip
Suggested packages&#58;
  mozilla-bonobo bugbuddy gnome-spell evolution-exchange esound-clients
  gstreamer0.8-alsa gnumeric-doc gnumeric-plugins-extra rng-tools gnutls-bin
  xprt latex-xft-fonts python-numeric-tutorial
Recommended packages&#58;
  epiphany-extensions gnome-pilot-conduits spamassassin evolution-plugins
  gdesklets-data gnome-games-extra-data gamin librsvg2-bin
The following packages will be REMOVED&#58;
  capplets gnome gnome-core gnome-desktop-environment gnome-office libgtop2-2
  nautilus nautilus-media
The following NEW packages will be installed&#58;
  gconf2-common gdesklets gdm-themes gnome-backgrounds gnome-doc-utils
  gnome-menus gnome-netstatus-applet gnome-terminal-data
  gstreamer0.8-cdparanoia gtkhtml3.6 iso-codes libcamel1.2-0 libcupsys2
  libebook1.2-3 libecal1.2-2 libedata-book1.2-2 libedata-cal1.2-1
  libedataserver1.2-4 libedataserverui1.2-4 libegroupwise1.2-5 libexif12
  libgal2.4-0 libgal2.4-common libgnome-menu0 libgnutls12 libgoffice-1
  libgoffice-1-common libgtkhtml3.6-18 libgtop2-5 libnautilus-burn1
  libsoup2.2-8 libwnck16 libxinerama1 libxklavier10 libxml2-utils
  libxxf86misc1 libxxf86vm1 python-gnome2 python-gnome2-extras python-libxml2
  python-numeric python-xml python2.3-gnome2 python2.3-gnome2-extras
  python2.3-libxml2 python2.3-pyorbit python2.3-xml system-tools-backends
  unzip xsltproc zip
The following packages will be upgraded&#58;
  bug-buddy capplets-data eog epiphany-browser evolution evolution-data-server
  gcalctool gcc-4.0-base gconf-editor gconf2 gedit gedit-common gnome-applets
  gnome-applets-data gnome-control-center gnome-cups-manager gnome-games
  gnome-games-data gnome-media gnome-panel gnome-panel-data
  gnome-system-monitor gnome-terminal gnome-utils gnumeric gnumeric-common
  libcupsys2-gnutls10 libeel2-2 libeel2-data libgconf2-4 libgcrypt11
  libgnome-desktop-2 libgnomecupsui1.0-1 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common
  libgsf-1 libgsf-gnome-1 libgtksourceview-common libgtksourceview1.0-0
  libnspr4 libnss3 libpanel-applet2-0 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libstdc++6
  metacity mozilla-browser mozilla-psm nautilus-data totem totem-xine yelp
52 upgraded, 51 newly installed, 8 to remove and 379 not upgraded.
Need to get 87.4MB of archives.
After unpacking 55.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? &#91;Y/n&#93; n
Abort.

Now I know gdesklets doesn't not require the removal or installation of any of those packages.

**Vergil83** · 11-30-2005

The issue is that gdesklets requires gnome. It looks like gnome is currently undergoing a major change (upgrading to 2.10). I don't think anything is wrong. If you do an apt-get dist-upgrade, I bet those packages will come up.

**Stefann** · 12-01-2005

Originally Posted by Vergil83

The issue is that gdesklets requires gnome. It looks like gnome is currently undergoing a major change (upgrading to 2.10). I don't think anything is wrong. If you do an apt-get dist-upgrade, I bet those packages will come up.

Probably, otherwise I don't think it would pop those up. You may already have gnome, but the version of gdesklets it is trying to download may be the one for the new Gnome release, and unless you are on dial-up is it really a big deal, I spent 10 minutes doing a 218MB apt-get install KDE on ubuntu with cable internet.

**bidi** · 12-01-2005

Well, I think I can safely say my system just went down the crapper. I did the apt-get dist-upgrade, and it was movnig along quite nicely. Then it got to udev! It says it can't upgrade. So instead of being smart and figuring it out, I reboot the system. Needless to say, it stopped working... X broke down, so I'm now confined to CLI. The packages udev and hotplugs are broken, which means I can't get my wireless adapter up and running (it's a USB adapter). This in turn means I can't download anything, and apt becomes pretty useless at this point. Anything I do, including using the "-f" parameter doesn't work (because there's no internet).

Did I just completely screw this up, or is there some way to at least get a few key things running (like hotplugs)?

**Vergil83** · 12-02-2005

what happens when you try to run hotplug?

Code:

/etc/init.d/hotplug start

**bidi** · 12-02-2005

That gave an error message. No worries though, I just reinstalled Debian. This time I made sure the do dist-upgrade right after the install. Got my wireless card working right off the bat, and got everything working. Now I'm just trying to get it looking the way I want, which is also giving me some headaches, I have another topic going about it already.

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