Just a we background, I had heard aptitude was a lot better that apt-get so have been trying to use aptitude instead because apparently its a more complete and easy to use program and is safer (I don't think so!). I just had to upgrade to UP4 via the incoming repositories due in part to being unable to install Keepass2 (a mono issue AFAI can figure out) on a fresh an updated UP3 LMDE (due to a previous failure to update to UP4 thanks to aptitude, I later found out).
Anyway like I say I was just finishing doing an upgrade via apt-get because when I tried it again with aptitude, aptitude took 3 hours to do nothing apart from crash my laptop trying to figure out dependences. Like I said above I messed up a previous attempt to upgrade so after rebooting after the upgrade had finished (as the system was unusable) I decided to do a full upgrade(sudo aptitude full-upgrade), still wanting to use aptitude even though it had failed at a normal upgrade, this is the result:
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adam@kaput ~ $ sudo aptitude full-upgrade
The following packages will be upgraded:
xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core{b} xserver-xorg-input-evdev
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom
xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati
xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740
xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga
xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-rendition
xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge
xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion
xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng
xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware
xserver-xorg-video-voodoo
34 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,238 kB of archives. After unpacking 108 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xserver-xorg-core: Depends: libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.21.6) but 0.20.2-0ubuntu1 is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
1) xserver-xorg
2) xserver-xorg-core
3) xserver-xorg-input-all
4) xserver-xorg-input-evdev
5) xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
6) xserver-xorg-input-wacom
7) xserver-xorg-video-apm
8) xserver-xorg-video-ark
9) xserver-xorg-video-ati
10) xserver-xorg-video-chips
11) xserver-xorg-video-cirrus
12) xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
13) xserver-xorg-video-i128
14) xserver-xorg-video-i740
15) xserver-xorg-video-intel
16) xserver-xorg-video-mach64
17) xserver-xorg-video-mga
18) xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
19) xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
20) xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
21) xserver-xorg-video-r128
22) xserver-xorg-video-radeon
23) xserver-xorg-video-rendition
24) xserver-xorg-video-s3
25) xserver-xorg-video-s3virge
26) xserver-xorg-video-savage
27) xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion
28) xserver-xorg-video-sis
29) xserver-xorg-video-sisusb
30) xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
31) xserver-xorg-video-trident
32) xserver-xorg-video-tseng
33) xserver-xorg-video-vesa
34) xserver-xorg-video-vmware
35) xserver-xorg-video-voodoo
Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
36) gdm3 recommends xserver-xorg
37) xserver-xorg-input-all recommends xserver-xorg-input-wacom
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
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The following packages will be REMOVED:
xserver-xorg{a} xserver-xorg-core{a} xserver-xorg-input-all{a}
xserver-xorg-input-evdev{a} xserver-xorg-input-synaptics{a}
xserver-xorg-input-wacom{a} xserver-xorg-video-apm{a}
xserver-xorg-video-ark{a} xserver-xorg-video-ati{a}
xserver-xorg-video-chips{a} xserver-xorg-video-cirrus{a}
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev{a} xserver-xorg-video-i128{a}
xserver-xorg-video-i740{a} xserver-xorg-video-intel{a}
xserver-xorg-video-mach64{a} xserver-xorg-video-mga{a}
xserver-xorg-video-neomagic{a} xserver-xorg-video-nouveau{a}
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome{a} xserver-xorg-video-r128{a}
xserver-xorg-video-radeon{a} xserver-xorg-video-rendition{a}
xserver-xorg-video-s3{a} xserver-xorg-video-s3virge{a}
xserver-xorg-video-savage{a} xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion{a}
xserver-xorg-video-sis{a} xserver-xorg-video-sisusb{a}
xserver-xorg-video-tdfx{a} xserver-xorg-video-trident{a}
xserver-xorg-video-tseng{a} xserver-xorg-video-vesa{a}
xserver-xorg-video-vmware{a} xserver-xorg-video-voodoo{a}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, [b]35 to remove and 0 not upgraded.[/b]
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 13.5 MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
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adam@kaput ~ $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-apm
xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips
xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-i128
xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64
xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon
xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3
xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident
xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware
xserver-xorg-video-voodoo
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 34 not upgraded.
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