Scary upgrade thing

[James Gray]

On Friday 14 October 2005 21:36, Simon Rönnqvist wrote:
>    Hi!
>
> I just upgraded to breezy (I've got both ubuntu and kubuntu-desktops
> installed).

Are you sure you upgraded?  To me it looks like you did an "apt-get upgrade" 
instead of an "apt-get dist-upgrade".


> It seems like when I try to install something containing 
> qt-stuff the following happends. (apt-get wants to remove a bunch of
> stuff)

Actually it saying a bunch of stuff is "kept back" meaning it wont be upgraded 
to the more recent version that's in the repository.  Are you sure you did a 
"dist-upgrade" to go from Hoary to Breezy?  The other thing is that after you 
ask to install a specific KDE package (kwebdev) the summary says:
"188 upgraded, 153 newly installed, 40 to remove and 317 not upgraded."

Looks like a normal upgrade to me.  The 317 not upgraded are probably due to 
fact dpkg needs to remove some obsolete packages to install the new ones.  
Ordinarily this is only done when you specify "dist-upgrade".
Read "man apt".

> Please also note the GPG thing when I do "apt-get update" it could
> have something to do with this problem, but I don't understand how.

Doubt it - it's just a warning that some packages can't be verified.  Others 
on this list will no doubt impart clues as to where the correct keys can be 
sourced.

My suggestion:
1. Run "apt-get dist-upgrade"
2. Run "apt-get -f install" if you get any errors from #1.
3. Repeat #2 until the errors go away (if you have any at all).
4. Repeat #1 and make sure its says there's nothing left to upgrade.

If a new kernel was installed, reboot.  If you run non-packaged binary drivers 
(Ati/nVidia spring to mind) make sure you know how to re-install them before 
rebooting.

FWIW - the Hoary->Breezy is a snack compared to the pure Debian Woody->Sarge 
upgrade.  The process I've outlined above is what I had to do for 
Woody->Sarge on my Debian servers (messy).

One other thing, if you get problems with some xFOO-packages complaining they 
can't update a file because it belong to another package, remember the 
solution:
dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/xFOO-package.1.1.1-arch.deb

HTH,

James
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