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Re: upgrading in sid

From: charlie derr <cderr(at)simons-rock.edu>
Date: Sun Dec 30 2007 - 20:01:32 EST

>> The above is in response to   apt-get -f install (what used to work in
>> the past for fixing issues, maybe that's my mistake?)

>
> It is better to use "aptitude install -f" if aptitude is your package
> manager of choice.
>
> Anyway, it seems that you have a problem running update-gconf-defaults,
> which is called in many installation scripts, the ones of desktop-base
> among them. This might be caused by an issue with the libxml2 package or
> it could be the symptom of a more general problem with python on your
> system.
>

Thanks much for that explanation.

> Let's see, which output do you get from these two commands:
>
> dpkg -l libxml2 gconf2 | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
>

delete:~# dpkg -l libxml2 gconf2 | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}' ii gconf2 2.20.1-2
ii libxml2 2.6.30.dfsg-3

> /usr/bin/python -V

delete:~# /usr/bin/python -V
Python 2.4.4

>> If I try to upgrade one of those packages individually with   aptitude
>> install shared-mime-info then the below happens:
>>
>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>   gnome-session libgnome2-common libgnomevfs2-common shared-mime-info
>> 4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 795 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 0B/2706kB of archives. After unpacking 1461kB will be used.
>> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
>> Writing extended state information... Error!
>> E: I wasn't able to locate file for the desktop-base package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
>> E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root?

>
> You used apt-get to break the desktop-base package behind aptitude's
> back and that seems to have confused aptitude. I would hope that this
> problem goes away once you have fixed the desktop-base package.
>

Do you need help?

Thanks again for letting me know that it was my mixing apt-get and aptitude that probably screwed me up.

I'll look into fixing the desktop-base package.

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