Problems upgrading to wheezy

[mandrake88]

I'm upgrading LMDE using wheezy repos, i did the following:

First, the sources.list

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import backport
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free

rm /etc/apt/preferences

When i tried to do a dist-upgrade, apt said that mint-meta-debian-cinnamon thunderbird will be removed, so i did a simple apt-get upgrade

Everything went well (Except for some problem with the fglrx driver, i had to boot in recovery mode and remove the fglrx driver), but still having the same problem with dist-upgrade

$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Leyendo lista de paquetes...
Creando árbol de dependencias...
Leyendo la información de estado...
Los siguientes paquetes se ELIMINARÁN:
mint-meta-debian-cinnamon thunderbird
Se instalarán los siguientes paquetes NUEVOS:
amd64-microcode gnome-accessibility-themes gnome-themes-standard-data
intel-microcode iucode-tool libdns88 libisc84 libqtdbus4 libqtdbus4:i386
Se actualizarán los siguientes paquetes:
bind9-host dnsutils firmware-linux firmware-linux-nonfree
gnome-themes-standard hunspell-en-us libbind9-80 libisccc80 libisccfg82
liblwres80 libqt4-dbus libqt4-dbus:i386 libqt4-declarative libqt4-designer
libqt4-help libqt4-network libqt4-network:i386 libqt4-opengl libqt4-script
libqt4-scripttools libqt4-sql libqt4-svg libqt4-test libqt4-xml
libqt4-xml:i386 libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtcore4 libqtcore4:i386 libqtgui4
libqtgui4:i386 qdbus
31 actualizados, 9 se instalarán, 2 para eliminar y 0 no actualizados.
Necesito descargar 28,2 MB de archivos.
Se liberarán 48,5 MB después de esta operación.
¿Desea continuar [S/n]? Abortado.

English translation:
"Los siguientes paquetes se ELIMINARÁN" = packages that willl be removed
"Se instalarán los siguientes paquetes NUEVOS: = new packages that will be installed
"Se actualizarán los siguientes paquetes" = packages that will be updated

What should i do? is safe run the dist-upgrade? i really don't know why apt want to remove the mint-meta-debian-cinnamon package (thunderbird is removed because it was replaced by the version without brand, i think..)

[Monsta]

Short answer: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 15#p697381

Long answer:

here's the butterfly:

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rm /etc/apt/preferences

and here's its effect:

1. Mint's own repo doesn't have priority over Debian's one anymore
2. apt-get wants to install a newer version of hunspell-en-us package from Debian's repo
3. That newer version conflicts with thunderbird (that's why Mint repo has a special version of it which doesn't cause conflicts)
4. apt-get wants to remove thunderbird
5. apt-get wants to remove mint-meta-debian-cinnamon as it depends on thunderbird

[kurotsugi]

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Package: *
Pin: release o=linuxmint
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: origin packages.linuxmint.com
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: 500

that's the content of /etc/apt/preference in case if you want to revert to your previous setting. aside from your current sources.list add these repo will be usefull too.

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# wheezy
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free

[Monsta]

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deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org testing main non-free

testing?

[kurotsugi]

my bad...I forgot to edit that one. it should be wheezy.

[mandrake88]

yay! sucessfull dist-upgrade

thx for the help guys