Adept Updater

[Jarkko Palviainen]

On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:41:28 +0200, adams <k7qo at commspeed.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 12:10 -0500, Greg Booth wrote:
>> On 11/2/07, adams <k7qo at commspeed.net> wrote:
>> > The past two days, the adept updater red triangle has been
>> > showing up to note a software upgrade is available.
>> >
>> > The two modules involved are mencode and mplayer.
>> >
>> > Both are shown as upgradable (upgradeable?  no word
>> > in any dictionary I own), but when I change to install
>> > the Requested status changes to BREAK(upgrade).

I'd have suggested running:
sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
to see what actually conflicts (and sending it here).

>> >
>> > Has any one else seen this behaviour?
>> >
>> > FYI
>> >
>> > Chuck
>>
>> Did you edit your sources.list files to re-enable the repo's they
>> disabled during upgrade ?

Would update find any packages to upgrade if repositories were commented  
out in sources.list?

>>
>> Greg
>>
>
> I looked at sources.list and found nothing commented out but the
> backports.  I did a
>
> sudo apt-get update
>
> and then tried the adept updater again and got the same error
> messages.....
>
> Probably something I'm doing wrong, but at this point I don't
> have a clue.  Going back to square one and try a new system
> with a new install and see what it does....

Solving those dependencies should not be overwhelming task or require a  
fresh install. Especially, when they are extra packages (like mplayer and  
mencode). You can always reinstall packages, if they are removed  
accidentially by a conflict.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Chuck