Slightly (?) broken install...

[acurrie]

I'm running a fairly new installation on LMDE on my ThinkPad. It's mostly great, but for some reason I'm unable to upgrade it from the Terminal.

Here's what I get when I run "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade":

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Calculating upgrade... Failed
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libhsqldb-java : Depends: gij but it is not going to be installed or
                           java-gcj-compat or
                           java2-runtime
 python3 : Depends: python3.2 (>= 3.2~rc1) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: python3-minimal (= 3.2-3) but it is not going to be installed
 tcl : Depends: tcl8.5 (>= 8.5.0-1) but it is not going to be installed
N: Ignoring file 'dropbox.list.save' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

The only things I can think of that may have inadvertently caused this are...

1. Grabbing the latest Chromium and Gwibber builds from the Sid repos, as per the instructions here.
2. Running Mint update from the GUI applet (once) before realizing that it doesn't currently work.

Is fixing this as easy as reactivating the Sid repo in "Software Sources" and hunting down these specific packages?

Thanks in advance for any insight into this...

[AlbertP]

I think someone at Debian hasn't sorted out the dependencies before putting this packages in Testing. You could indeed solve it by updating these packages from the Sid repo and then returning to Testing.

[zerozero]

yeahh you broke it

when you upgrade gwibber, how many dependencies did it upgraded aswell?
at least python for what i can see;

solution? you can try with aptitude, to see if it downgrades the required pks

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sudo aptitude update

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sudo aptitude full-upgrade

but i can't tell you it will work

[acurrie]

Looks like aptitude might work:

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783 packages upgraded, 126 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 330 MB/758 MB of archives. After unpacking 575 MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libsdl1.2debian: Conflicts: libsdl1.2debian-alsa but 1.2.14-6.1 is installed.
  libgfortran3: Depends: gcc-4.6-base (= 4.6.0-2) but 4.6.0-6 is installed.
  libgomp1: Depends: gcc-4.6-base (= 4.6.0-2) but 4.6.0-6 is installed.
  libgtkhtml-editor0: Depends: libgtkhtml3.14-19 (< 3.31) but 3.32.2-2 is to be installed.
  xserver-xorg-video-nv: Depends: xorg-video-abi-6.0 which is a virtual package.
  xserver-xorg-core: Breaks: xserver-xorg-video-6 which is a virtual package.
  libgcc1: Depends: gcc-4.6-base (= 4.6.0-2) but 4.6.0-6 is installed.
  libdrm-nouveau1a: Conflicts: libdrm-nouveau1 but 2.4.21-1~squeeze3 is installed.
  libgtkhtml-editor-3.14-common: Conflicts: libgtkhtml-editor-common but 3.30.3-1 is installed.
  ure: Breaks: openoffice.org-core (< 1:3.3~) but 1:3.2.1-9 is installed.
  libcryptui0a: Conflicts: libcryptui0 but 2.30.1-2 is installed.
  libquadmath0: Depends: gcc-4.6-base (= 4.6.0-2) but 4.6.0-6 is installed.
  esound-clients: Depends: esound-common (= 0.2.41-8) but 0.2.41-9 is to be installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

      Remove the following packages:                       
1)      openoffice.org-base-core                           
2)      openoffice.org-core                                
3)      xserver-xorg-video-nouveau                         
4)      xserver-xorg-video-nv                              

      Keep the following packages at their current version:
5)      cpp-4.4 [4.4.5-8 (now)]                            
6)      esound-common [0.2.41-8 (now)]                     
7)      evolution [Not Installed]                          
8)      evolution-plugins [Not Installed]                  
9)      g++ [4:4.4.5-1 (now)]                              
10)     g++-4.4 [4.4.5-8 (now)]                            
11)     g++-4.5 [Not Installed]                            
12)     gcc [4:4.4.5-1 (now)]                              
13)     gcc-4.4 [4.4.5-8 (now)]                            
14)     gcc-4.4-base [4.4.5-8 (now)]                       
15)     gcc-4.5 [Not Installed]                            
16)     gnome-core [1:2.30+6 (now)]                        
17)     libcryptui0a [Not Installed]                       
18)     libdrm-nouveau1a [Not Installed]                   
19)     libesd0 [0.2.41-8 (now)]                           
20)     libevolution [Not Installed]                       
21)     libgcc1 [1:4.4.5-8 (now)]                          
22)     libgfortran3 [4.4.5-8 (now)]                       
23)     libgomp1 [4.4.5-8 (now)]                           
24)     libgtkhtml-editor-3.14-0 [Not Installed]           
25)     libgtkhtml-editor-3.14-common [Not Installed]      
26)     libgtkhtml3.14-19 [3.30.3-1 (now)]                 
27)     libquadmath0 [Not Installed]                       
28)     libsdl1.2debian [1.2.14-6.1 (now)]                 
29)     libstdc++6-4.4-dev [4.4.5-8 (now)]                 
30)     libstdc++6-4.5-dev [Not Installed]                 
31)     seahorse [2.30.1-2 (now)]                          

      Leave the following dependencies unresolved:         
32)     evolution-common recommends evolution              


Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y

Like I said, it's a fairly new installation -- so if things go awry I can always nuke & reinstall. And then learn about pinning packages, I guess..

Thank you both for the replies.

[zerozero]

ahh are you using nvidia? because "xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
xserver-xorg-video-nv " are going to be removed! and you will end up without x after the reboot

well it's a big mess anyway
good luck

[acurrie]

"xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-nv " are going to be removed! and you will end up without x after the reboot

But not if I reinstall those packages before closing the terminal, right? It'll be a learning experience either way -- thanks for the heads-up!

[zerozero]

ohh yes it will a learning experience
but i don't think aptitude will install them again, not without wanting to remove others, i guess, and the hole will be deeper and deeper

welcome to dependencies nightmare

[AlbertP]

Welcome to the Debian

You do not get without X, however. You will be using Vesa. And if you don't have an NVidia card, don't worry.