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Hello When I've run aptitude update/upgrade - on stable with only main and security repositories running, it said, it wants to remove: xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xlibmesa-dri xserver-xfree86 Correct me if I'm ...
  1. 05-23-2006 #1
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    Aptitude issue - update and upgrade - solved

    Hello
    When I've run aptitude update/upgrade - on stable with only main and security repositories running, it said, it wants to remove:
    xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xlibmesa-dri xserver-xfree86
    Correct me if I'm wrong, but removing xserver isn't such a good idea? I don't know why this happened or should it be like this?
    thanks in advance
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    Post the content of your /etc/apt/sources.list. I guess this shouldn't happen if you have only "stable" sources.

    Nope, removing xserver-xfree86 isn't such a good idea.
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    # deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main

    deb ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ stable main
    # deb-src ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ stable main

    deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main


    # deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
    # deb http://www.kadu.net/download/binary/debian/repo/ stable main
    # deb http://eyagi.bpa.nu/~jamie/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free

    Besides the standard repositories I also have
    an unofficial repository (I turned it off after I installed nvidia and quake 2)
    kadu repository (turned it off after I installed kadu)
    and doomsday (jhexen) repository (turned it off after I installed jhexen).
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    Aptitude sometimes behaves a little differently than apt-get.

    Do you have the same issue when doing
    Code:
    apt-get update
    and
    Code:
    apt-get dist-upgrade
    ?
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    Nope, it simply wants to upgrade the same packages that aptitude wants to upgrade, but doesn't want to remove anything. I guess I should use apt-get then? But I've read that aptitude is more reliable...
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    Quote Originally Posted by gabriel_007
    But I've read that aptitude is more reliable...
    I don't know about that, as I've never used aptitude.

    apt-get does exactly what I want. So I have no need for aptitude. Your needs may differ though.

    As far as I know, the only reason aptitude is "better" would be because it remembers which packages were installed at your request instead of as dependencies.
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    Hmm... I've run aptitude update/dist-upgrade and it didn't want to remove anything . I guess that was it: to use dist-upgrade. However, during it I encountered another problem:

    Code:
    Następujące NOWE pakiety zostaną zainstalowane:
  x-window-system-core
Następujące pakiety zostaną uaktualnione:
  gpdf libnspr4 libnss3 libtiff-tools libtiff4 mozilla-browser mozilla-psm
7 pakietów uaktualnianych, 1 instalowanych, 0 do usunięcia i 0 nie uaktualnianych.
Do pobrania 0B/12,9MB archiwów. Zajęte po rozpakowaniu: 283kB.
Kontynuować? [Y/n/?] y
Zapisywanie dodatkowych informacji o stanie... Gotowe
Prekonfiguracja pakietów ...
dpkg: błąd składni, w linii `/var/lib/dpkg/available' niedaleko linii 1:
 po nazwie pola `ÉАU‰ĺSƒěč“' musi wystąpić dwukropek
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
W czasie instalacji wystąpiły problemy. Próba naprawy:
dpkg: błąd składni, w linii `/var/lib/dpkg/available' niedaleko linii 1:
 po nazwie pola `ÉАU‰ĺSƒěč“' musi wystąpić dwukropek
Czytanie list pakietów... Gotowe
Budowanie drzewa zależności
Odczyt dodatkowych informacji o stanie
Inicjalizacja stanów pakietów... Gotowe
Odczyt opisów zadań... Gotowe
    It says:
    During the installation there were problems: Trying to fix it:
    dpkg: syntax error in line /var/lib/dpkg/available close to line 1
    after a fields name (these signs) must be a colon. ":"
    Reading package list... Ready
    etc.

    What should I do?

    I've tried acce
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    Quote Originally Posted by gabriel_007
    During the installation there were problems: Trying to fix it:
    dpkg: syntax error in line /var/lib/dpkg/available close to line 1
    after a fields name (these signs) must be a colon. ":"
    Reading package list... Ready
    etc.
    Hum... And
    Code:
    apt-get update
    doesn' return any errors? I guess not you are using an official mirror.

    Does
    Code:
    apt-get -f install
    do something? Or ask to do something?

    If unconclusive, try
    Code:
    apt-get clean
apt-get autoclean
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
    it should work...
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    Nope, it works the same, with the exception, that apt-get only upgrades packages (aptitude also wants to install this x-window-system-core). But the error is the same. I went through every single step you suggested
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    Try
    Code:
    dpkg --clear-avail
apt-get update
    then.
    "To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow."

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