[SOLVED] aptitude error

utanja · 08-05-2015, 12:56 PM

symbol lookup error:aptitude: undefined sysbol: <ZNcwsfwr7qusfwra5pmager_testERKSspk

never had this problem.....where do i look?

jdkaye · 08-05-2015, 03:03 PM

Can you tell us what command you gave that produced this error. Also it might be helpful to give the entire output produced by the command.
jdk

utanja · 08-06-2015, 09:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdkaye

Can you tell us what command you gave that produced this error. Also it might be helpful to give the entire output produced by the command.
jdk

Code:

symbol lookup error:aptitude: undefined sysbol: <ZNcwsfwr7qusfwra5pmager_testERKSspk

the command is sudo aptitude

jdkaye · 08-07-2015, 12:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by utanja

Code:

symbol lookup error:aptitude: undefined sysbol: <ZNcwsfwr7qusfwra5pmager_testERKSspk

the command is sudo aptitude

If you are trying to do a regular upgrade then just try these two commands:

Code:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

Report any error messages you get.
jdk

utanja · 08-07-2015, 10:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdkaye

If you are trying to do a regular upgrade then just try these two commands:

Code:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

Report any error messages you get.
jdk

both commands work fine with no error message from both the terminal emulator and from the direct command line,

It is the sudo aptitude (no parameter) from the command line it errors

Timothy Miller · 08-07-2015, 11:32 AM

Something aptitude is trying to call for visual mode is failing. aptitude by itself with no options or command just opens aptitude in a visual mode (similar to how dselect was). Unfortunately I don't personally use aptitude to know enough to try to figure out WHAT is failing.

jdkaye · 08-07-2015, 12:03 PM

Have you submitted a bug report? If not someone else seems to have the same problem. Have a look at this link and see if there's a solution posted. What version of the libcwidget3 package are you running?
jdk

utanja · 08-08-2015, 11:46 AM

just updated sid with apt-get and there is an upgrade for aptitude and dome dependencies which now works perfectly

jdkaye · 08-08-2015, 12:50 PM

Well done! Yes, with Sid (or Testing) you really need to update your system regularly (I update mine daily). You'll avoid a lot of problems that way.
jdk

Timothy Miller · 08-08-2015, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by jdkaye

Well done! Yes, with Sid (or Testing) you really need to update your system regularly (I update mine daily). You'll avoid a lot of problems that way.
jdk

Unless you shouldn't update, in which case it breaks stuff. That's the rub of SID, you need to check the current issues all the time to avoid breaking something you need to use.

jdkaye · 08-08-2015, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Timothy Miller

Unless you shouldn't update, in which case it breaks stuff. That's the rub of SID, you need to check the current issues all the time to avoid breaking something you need to use.

Which is why it's a good idea to install the apt-listbugs package.

Quote:

Description: tool which lists critical bugs before each APT installation
apt-listbugs is a tool which retrieves bug reports from the Debian Bug Tracking System and lists
them. Especially, it is intended to be invoked before each installation/upgrade by APT in order to
check whether the installation/upgrade is safe.

jdk

utanja · 08-11-2015, 07:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdkaye

Which is why it's a good idea to install the apt-listbugs package.

jdk

I had not updated for a while and while updating I was doing some paperwork and missed seeing
some conflicting items..

Normally I update daily....from now on I will check apt-get-listbugs

Thanks everyone for the tips

Timothy Miller · 08-11-2015, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by utanja

I had not updated for a while and while updating I was doing some paperwork and missed seeing
some conflicting items..

Normally I update daily....from now on I will check apt-get-listbugs

Thanks everyone for the tips

Yeah, HUGE thing for running testing or sid, unlesss you don't mind breaking stuff and having to wait sometimes weeks for it to be fixed in the repos...

jdkaye · 08-11-2015, 12:08 PM

Yes, I am currently living through the hell known as KDE5 but in the end despite all my whinging I truly love Debian Testing and KDE.
jdk

Timothy Miller · 08-11-2015, 01:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdkaye

Yes, I am currently living through the hell known as KDE5 but in the end despite all my whinging I truly love Debian Testing and KDE.
jdk

Yeah, I'm abandoning KDE with 5. Just too feature incomplete, too little choice in how to use it, too little stability. I've already abandoned it on 1 machine for LXQT, I'm probably going to abandon it on another for Trinity, possibly all the remaining desktops. I've been using KDE since v1.1, through every version, even through the hectic wasn't supposed to be used by the masses 4.0, and never felt like it was so bad that it was unusable. But with KDE5, it's just too badly done, I can't use it anymore.