Upgrade to 14.10 and ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging problem
Marius Gedminas
marius at gedmin.as
Thu Nov 6 07:36:40 UTC 2014
On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 10:06:54PM +0000, Ben wrote:
> Following the advice found here:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GetUbuntuGNOME#Upgrading_Ubuntu_GNOME
>
> I ran "sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging" before upgrading
> (from 14.04) and I got a very long list of rather scary sounding
> suggestions.
Yes, I've experienced that as well. I'll tell you how it went for me
(spoilers: the upgrade was successful):
1) sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
This wanted to remove essential GNOME packages like gnome-shell and gdm.
I let it, thinking I can reinstall them later.
2) sudo apt install ubuntu-gnome-desktop
This should've reinstalled all the essential packages from the main
archive. Unfortunately it failed. It was difficult to figure out why,
but eventually I found out that ppa-purge failed to remove some staging
packages!
3) sudo apt install apt-show-versions
apt-show-versions | grep 'newer than'
This lists all the remaining PPA packages that are newer than the ones
in the main archive. For me they were mutter-common and evolution-common.
4) sudo apt remove mutter-common evolution-common
5) sudo apt install ubuntu-gnome-desktop
This reinstalled all the packages unnecessarily removed in step 1. It
also asked me about the display manager I wanted to use (gdm or
lightdm), I chose gdm.
5) apt-show-versions | grep -v uptodate
This shows all packages that aren't exactly matching the latest version
in the main archive. I had a bunch of them pointing to trusty rather
than trusty-updates; I think that's a bug in ppa-purge in that it
downgrades a bit too much.
This also shows packages installed locally that have no corresponding
versions in Ubuntu archives, such as Google Chrome. Ignore those.
6) sudo apt upgrade
This upgraded all the downgraded-too-much packages to their latest
versions from main archive updates
7) update-manager or do-release-upgrade
Update Manager refused to do an upgrade before I rebooted for some
reason, so I did my upgrade on the console with do-release-upgrade. (I
was impatient).
8) rebooted
9) sudo apt update
10) apt-show-versions | grep -v uptodate
Just to make sure everything's now correctly upgraded to uptopic.
Surprise! Chromium-browser from 14.04 security updates is newer than
the one in 14.10 (see also bug 1386455). Next surprise: gnome-terminal
is a PPA package! Oh, that's because I forgot to ppa-purge the main
PPA. Then there were some libraries (also from PPA) that weren't
present in the main archive, so I removed them.
And then I added the PPAs back and upgraded to GNOME 3.14, which was a
fun story full of segfaults and debugging.
Hope that helps!
I'll also reply inline to some of your concerns:
> I've pasted the output below. It include some errors that
> I don't understand as well. I am not sure if should accept this rather
> major set of recommendations of I should try to fix whatever seems to be
> wrong with my installation. Any guidance would be much appreciated.
>
> Updating packages lists
> PPA to be removed: gnome3-team gnome3-staging
> Package revert list generated:
...
> Disabling gnome3-team PPA from
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gnome3-team-gnome3-staging-trusty.list
> Updating packages lists
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Release ‘trusty’ for ‘gir1.2-tracker-1.0’ was not found
> E: Release ‘trusty’ for ‘libcamel-1.2-49’ was not found
...
> Unable to find an archive "trusty" for the package "gir1.2-tracker-1.0"
> Unable to find an archive "trusty" for the package "libcamel-1.2-49"
...
These errors are harmless. Those packages exist only in the PPA but not in the
main archive. They should be removed by ppa-purge.
> The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
> account-plugin-aim account-plugin-jabber account-plugin-salut
...
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> evolution-indicator{a} libcamel-1.2-45{a} libmutter0c{ab}
> nautilus-sendto-empathy{a}
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> gir1.2-tracker-1.0{u} libgeocode-glib0{u} libgfbgraph-0.2-0{u}
> libgnome-desktop-3-10{u} libmutter0d{u} libtracker-control-1.0-0{u}
> libtracker-miner-1.0-0{u} libtracker-sparql-1.0-0{u} xbrlapi{u}
and they are.
> 0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 231 downgraded, 9 to remove and 37 not upgraded.
> Need to get 110 MB of archives. After unpacking 275 MB will be freed.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> tracker : Depends: libtracker-miner-0.16-0 (= 0.16.4-0ubuntu1~trusty4) but 0.16.5-0ubuntu0.1 is installed.
> Depends: libtracker-sparql-0.16-0 (= 0.16.4-0ubuntu1~trusty4) but 0.16.5-0ubuntu0.1 is installed.
> tracker-gui : Depends: libtracker-sparql-0.16-0 (= 0.16.4-0ubuntu1~trusty4) but 0.16.5-0ubuntu0.1 is installed.
> tracker-extract : Depends: libtracker-extract-0.16-0 (= 0.16.4-0ubuntu1~trusty4) but 0.16.5-0ubuntu0.1 is installed.
> Depends: libtracker-miner-0.16-0 (= 0.16.4-0ubuntu1~trusty4) but 0.16.5-0ubuntu0.1 is installed.
> Depends: libtracker-sparql-0.16-0 (= 0.16.4-0ubuntu1~trusty4) but 0.16.5-0ubuntu0.1 is installed.
> evolution-data-server-online-accounts : Depends: libcamel-1.2-45 (= 3.10.4-0ubuntu1) but 3.10.4-0ubuntu1.5 is to be installed.
> tracker-utils : Depends: libtracker-sparql-0.16-0 (= 0.16.4-0ubuntu1~trusty4) but 0.16.5-0ubuntu0.1 is installed.
> tracker-miner-fs : Depends: libtracker-extract-0.16-0 (= 0.16.4-0ubuntu1~trusty4) but 0.16.5-0ubuntu0.1 is installed.
> Depends: libtracker-miner-0.16-0 (= 0.16.4-0ubuntu1~trusty4) but 0.16.5-0ubuntu0.1 is installed.
> Depends: libtracker-sparql-0.16-0 (= 0.16.4-0ubuntu1~trusty4) but 0.16.5-0ubuntu0.1 is installed.
> evolution-data-server : Depends: libcamel-1.2-45 (= 3.10.4-0ubuntu1) but 3.10.4-0ubuntu1.5 is to be installed.
> libmutter0c : Depends: mutter-common (= 3.10.4-0ubuntu2.1) but 3.10.4-0ubuntu2 is to be installed.
> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>
> Remove the following packages:
> 1) evolution
> 2) evolution-data-server
> 3) evolution-data-server-online-accounts
> 4) evolution-plugins
> 5) gdm
And there it goes again, removing gdm. *sigh*
> 6) gir1.2-mutter-3.0
> 7) gnome-contacts
> 8) gnome-documents
> 9) gnome-shell
> 10) gnome-shell-extensions
> 11) libfolks-eds25
> 12) mutter
> 13) tracker
> 14) tracker-extract
> 15) tracker-gui
> 16) tracker-miner-fs
> 17) tracker-utils
>
> Keep the following packages at their current version:
> 18) evolution-indicator [Not Installed]
> 19) libmutter0c [Not Installed]
>
> Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
> 20) evolution-common recommends evolution
> 21) indicator-datetime recommends evolution-data-server
> 22) libfolks25 recommends libfolks-eds25
> 23) empathy recommends gnome-contacts
> 24) libupower-glib3 recommends upower (> 0.99)
> 25) libupower-glib2 recommends upower (> 0.99)
BTW ppa-purge uses aptitude. I hate aptitude precisely for this reason:
it asks the user questions like this. Who can understand it?
Anyway, it sounds like what happened to me, and that story ended
successfully.
Regards,
Marius Gedminas
--
Some performers on television appear to be horrible people, but when
you finally get to know them in person, they turn out to be even worse.
-- Avery
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