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mintupdate problem

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 6:06 am
by Paco
Hello everybody, this is my first post, and I want to thank all of you for this awesome distro. It's the best I've tried. Very, very good work.

I've got a problem with my installation. When I told mintupdate to install the updates it says "Fix the broken packages first" (translated from spanish, so it may not be the same error message in your installations).

I've gone to synaptic to find those broken packages and there's no one listed.
I've tried aptitude, shows 15 broken packages and fixed all...

Back to mintupdate: I've got the same error message

Tried "apt-get upgrade" It shows two differences in two config files, I kept the mint ones. No errors, I rebooted the system and everything seems ok.

Runned again mintupdate: only 5 updates available (instead the prvious 15) -> When I try to update it shows the same error

apt-get upgrade shows:

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Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho
Creando árbol de dependencias       
Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho
Los siguientes paquetes se han retenido:
  libva1 linux-headers-2.6-liquorix-amd64 linux-image-2.6-liquorix-amd64
0 actualizados, 0 se instalarán, 0 para eliminar y 3 no actualizados.
(I'm using the liquorix kernel, as you can see)

Is it a problem with the package status file? How could I clean it?

sources list:

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free

## WINE
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu lucid main

## Kernel Liquorix
deb http://liquorix.net/debian sid main

Re: mintupdate problem

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 6:15 am
by Paco
Sorry, Ive just seen another post with the same error: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=66960

Re: mintupdate problem

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:20 pm
by timmer1240
Open the terminal and type in sudo apt-get update then sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and it will fix the problem.

Re: mintupdate problem

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:36 pm
by richyrich
Paco, I'd like to suggest that in Mint Debian, you use Debian repositories instead of mixing them with Ubuntu.
Updates, upgrades can cause breakage ! not recommended.

Debian ppa's and two install choices available here : http://www.winehq.org/download/deblenny

but it's your choice . . good luck.