Re: [PLUG] Mythbuntu update oddness?

[Matt Mossholder <matt@mossholder.com>]

Try using apt-get, instead of aptitude. There have been some reports of
aptitude doing some odd things lately....


		--Matt



On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 18:28 -0400, JP Vossen wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:08:27 -0400
>  > From: "Brent Saner" <brent.saner@gmail.com>
>  > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Mythbuntu update oddness?
>  >
>  > ooooh, i ran into something a bit like this as a result of dependency 
>  > hell in debian once.
>  >
>  > how i fixed it was i
>  > # aptitude remove --purge foo
>  > # aptitude clean
>  > # deborphan (optional, only need to use it if the software was using
>  > libraries that are not in use now)
>  > # aptitude install foo
> 
> Good idea.  Tried that, didn't help. :-(
> 
> ----- Trimmed session -----
> $ sudo aptitude remove --purge ubuntu-mythtv-frontend
>     The following packages will be REMOVED:
>       ubuntu-mythtv-frontend
>     0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>     Removing ubuntu-mythtv-frontend ...
> 
> $ sudo apt-get autoremove
>     0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 
> $ sudo aptitude clean
> 
> $ sudo aptitude install deborphan
> $ sudo deborphan
>     libdb4.3
>     libdb4.6
> 
> $ sudo aptitude remove --purge $(deborphan)
>     The following packages will be REMOVED:
>       libdb4.3 libdb4.6
>     0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 
> $ sudo aptitude install ubuntu-mythtv-frontend
>     The following NEW packages will be installed:
>       ubuntu-mythtv-frontend
>     0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>     Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net gutsy/multiverse 
> ubuntu-mythtv-frontend 0.20.2+fixes14703-0ubuntu0~mythbuntu1 [180kB]
>     Selecting previously deselected package ubuntu-mythtv-frontend.
>     Unpacking ubuntu-mythtv-frontend (from 
> .../ubuntu-mythtv-frontend_0.20.2+fixes14703-0ubuntu0~mythbuntu1_all.deb) 
> ...
>     Setting up ubuntu-mythtv-frontend 
> (0.20.2+fixes14703-0ubuntu0~mythbuntu1) ...
> 
> [mythtvuser@mythtv-be-01:T0:L1:C522:J0:2007-10-31_18:21:12_EDT]
> /home/mythtvuser$ sudo aptitude upgrade
>     W: The "upgrade" command is deprecated; use "safe-upgrade" instead.
>     The following packages will be upgraded:
>       ubuntu-mythtv-frontend
>     1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>     Need to get 0B/180kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
>     Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
>     Abort.
> 
> [mythtvuser@mythtv-be-01:T0:L1:C525:J0:2007-10-31_18:24:27_EDT]
> /home/mythtvuser$ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
>     The following packages will be upgraded:
>       ubuntu-mythtv-frontend
>     1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>     Need to get 0B/180kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
>     Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
>     Abort.
> ----- end Trimmed session -----
> 
> 
>  > YMMV. and i don't know what the equivalent of deborphan is/if there is
>  > one for ubuntu.
> 
> Ubuntu has deborphan too.
> 
> Thanks,
> JP
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