Could not calculate the upgrade -- Error Message (While doing Manual Update)

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Mon Dec 21 01:56:45 UTC 2009


On 12/20/2009 09:57 AM, Pastor JW wrote:
> On Saturday 19 December 2009 8:17:24 pm Jatin Davey wrote:
...
>>
>> You have asked me to do the following:
>>
>> 1. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade (It is asking me to remove 156 packages to
>> be removed. Should i select "yes" for it)
> 
> Only if you actually want to upgrade.  If you type no it will abort the 
> upgrade as you have experienced. 

$ man apt-get
>        dist-upgrade
>            dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade,
>            also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions
>            of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and
>            it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the
>            expense of less important ones if necessary. So, dist-upgrade
>            command may remove some packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file
>            contains a list of locations from which to retrieve desired package
>            files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for overriding
>            the general settings for individual packages.





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