[ubuntu-uk] Broken Precise .....

[Piskie]

On 17/02/12 16:06, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:12:30PM +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 17 February 2012 15:10, Barry Drake<ubuntu-advertising at gmx.com>  wrote:
>>> On 17/02/12 15:06, Liam Proven wrote:
>>>> Try sudo apt-get install -f
>>> Sorry, that just gives me:
>>> barry at prrecise:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
>>> [sudo] password for barry:
>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>> Building dependency tree
>>> Reading state information... Done
>>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
>> Then you don't have broken packages. Looking more closely at the error
>> you posted, it says you have /held/ broken packages. What packages are
>> marked as "hold"?
> That can commonly happen if the archive is inconsistant, particularly
> with unity packages where there are tight version constraints between
> them.  Typically they resolve themselves in a few hours and an install
> will continue.
>
> I would normally not advise to take any offered Partial upgrades.  They
> tend to lead to pain unless you intimately understand the output of
> apt-get when resolving conflicts.
>
> Good luck.
>
> -apw
>
I'd agree with this.

I have up till recently, synaptic being rather broken, updated from a 
terminal and then used synaptic to deal with upgrades.

Never had a partial that way that caused me issues - update manager is 
prone to causing 'issues' during the dev cycle so I never use it, nor 
the software-centre.

In the past I did it all from the terminal - but have been subscribed to 
various synaptic bugs.

I'm sure there are reasons why I shouldn't but previously I did

sudo aptitude update &&sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

After installing aptitude ... sigh

Recently

sudo apt-get update &&gksudo synaptic

Good luck ;)

regards

piskie