gnome-keyring: upgrade/downgrade/upgrade/...

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 12:15:59PM -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote:
> [ Ubuntu 12.04.3; gnome-keyring-{3.2.2-2ubuntu4,3.2.2-2ubuntu4.1} ]
> 
> Apparently, I've messed up the APT database(s).
> 
> After I (unsuccessfully) tried to remove 'gnome-keyring', all my "package
> managers" (e.g., 'aptitude', 'synaptic', ...) are oscillating between
> wanting to downgrade '*4.1' to '*4' and upgrade '*4' to '*4.1'.

Interesting.

> In other words, if I upgrade 'gnome-keyring' to '*4.1' via 'aptitude',
> the next time I run 'aptitude' it wants to downgrade the "keyring"
> package to '*4'.  After downgrading, the next invocation of 'aptitude'
> wants to again upgrade it!
> 
> This repeats _ad nauseam_  :(
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestion to "get things right again"?

Assuming your package lists are sane:

  sudo apt-get install -f
  sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Please attach the full output of these two commands (or use a pastebin
like paste.ubuntu.com and include the link), then we can see better
what's actually happening.

Aptitude is not the recommended package manager for Ubuntu.  I'm not
sure why, but my personal experience with it was definitely poorer than
dealing with plain old apt-get.

Marius Gedminas
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