How to resolve unmet dependencies in dist-upgrade from debian sarge to etch

maxmil · 01-27-2007, 06:11 AM

I am relatively new to Linux and am trying to do a distribution upgrade from the debian stable sarge release to debian testing (etch).

The steps that i have taken are:
1) Updated my system using aptitude with the stable repositories in my sources.list.
2) Modified my sources.list to point to the testing repositories
3) Updated my sources via the aptitude update command
4) Tried to execute a distribution upgrade via the aptitude dist-upgrade command.

This last command failed with the following error

Code:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  xlibmesa-glu: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installable
                Conflicts: libglu1 which is a virtual package.
  libglu1-mesa: Conflicts: libglu1 which is a virtual package.
  libfam0c102: Conflicts: libfam0 but 2.7.0-12 is to be installed.

As this is the first time that i have had unmet dependencies i don't know what i should do. Is there a procedure for solving these problems? What is a virtual package?

I am guessing that xfree86-common is a package that existed in sarge but not in etch, does this mean that i should uninstall xlibmesa-glu?

I don't want to ruin an otherwise stable system, can anyone advise me what to do?

craigevil · 01-27-2007, 07:30 AM

Release Notes for Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 ("etch"), Intel x86 - Upgrades from previous releases
http://www.debian.org/releases/testi...rading.en.html

Is probably a good place to start. Etch uses xorg instead of xfree86.

Best thing to do would be to update aptitude first. BTW please post your sources.list.

Xorg69To7 - Debian Wiki

Quote:

With the release of Debian 4.0 (Etch), Xorg version 7.1 has been included. This is a major change in the packaging from the previous versions (XFree86 of any version and Xorg versions 6.x), and is therefore a complex upgrade which pushes the limits of apt and causes various problems for users. The XStrikeForce is working through the bugs, but in the meantime this page is here to help users out with the transition. Here are some of the more common problems and how to solve them.

Sarge2EtchUpgrade - Debian Wiki
http://wiki.debian.org/Sarge2EtchUpgrade

rickh · 01-27-2007, 09:39 AM

Have you been using aptitude exclusively in the past. If not run "# aptitude keep-all" first.

Then "aptitude install aptitude" would be a good idea. Aptitude should give you a series of choices about the different ways it wants to resolve the dependency problems.

The conversion from Xfree86 to Xorg is still a little tricky on some systems. You might want to upgrade to xorg from backports.org first, then do the dist-upgrade.

If you have your /home directory with all your critical data on a separate partition, you should be safe under the worst case scenarios. Caution is in order here, but you should be able to successfully complete the process.

Do keep us posted.

maxmil · 01-28-2007, 04:58 AM

OK, thanks for the advise.

1) aptitude keep-all gives me an Unknown Command error, i guess that this command is not present in the version of aptitude with sarge (0.2.15.9)? Or maybe its called something else? The available commands from the usage text are:

Code:

 install      - Install/upgrade packages
 remove       - Remove packages
 purge        - Remove packages and their configuration files
 hold         - Place packages on hold
 unhold       - Cancel a hold command for a package
 markauto     - Mark packages as having been automatically installed
 unmarkauto   - Mark packages as having been manually installed
 forbid-version - Forbid aptitude from upgrading to a specific package version.
 update       - Download lists of new/upgradable packages
 upgrade      - Perform a safe upgrade
 dist-upgrade - Perform an upgrade, possibly installing and removing packages
 forget-new   - Forget what packages are "new"
 search       - Search for a package by name and/or expression
 show         - Display detailed information about a package
 clean        - Erase downloaded package files
 autoclean    - Erase old downloaded package files
 changelog    - View a package's changelog
 download     - Download the .deb file for a package

It may be of interest that I have not used aptitude as a my package manager exclusively having started using synaptic. I have also read that there can be problems if you sometimes execute aptitude as sudo and other times as root. I'm pretty sure that i have only executed it as sudo although i can't be 100% sure.

2) If i do aptitude install aptitude i get this:

Code:

maxmil@max-lt:~$ sudo aptitude install aptitude
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
  capplets-data cdrecord dbus-glib-1 desktop-base desktop-file-utils
  dia-common dia-libs docbook-dsssl docbook-xml esound
  evolution-data-server gconf2 gedit-common gksu gnome-applets-data
  gnome-desktop-data gnome-doc-tools gnome-games-data gnome-icon-theme
  gnome-keyring gnome-mime-data gnome-themes gnome-themes-extras
  gnome2-user-guide gnumeric-common gstreamer0.8-audiofile
  gstreamer0.8-flac gstreamer0.8-gnomevfs gstreamer0.8-mad
  gstreamer0.8-misc gstreamer0.8-oss gstreamer0.8-plugin-apps
  gstreamer0.8-tools gstreamer0.8-vorbis gtk2-engines-crux
  gtk2-engines-industrial gtk2-engines-lighthouseblue gtk2-engines-mist
  gtk2-engines-pixbuf gtk2-engines-redmond95 gtk2-engines-smooth
  gtk2-engines-spherecrystal gtk2-engines-thinice gucharmap guile-1.6-libs
  hal libapm1 libbonoboui2-common libcompfaceg1 libcroco3 libdb4.1
  libebook8 libecal6 libedata-book1 libedata-cal5 libedataserver3
  libeel2-data libegroupwise6 libenchant1 libgda2-3 libgda2-common
  libgksu1.2-0 libgksuui1.0-0 libgnome-keyring0 libgnome-pilot2 libgnome2-0
  libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomecups1.0-1
  libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-common
  libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgsf-1
  libgsf-gnome-1 libgsm1 libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0 libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0
  libgstreamer0.8-0 libgtksourceview-common libgtksourceview1.0-0
  libgtop2-2 libgucharmap4 libguile-ltdl-1 libhal-storage0 libmetacity0
  libnautilus-burn0 liboil0.2 libopenh323-1.15.2 libosp4 libostyle1
  libperl5.8 libpisync0 libpt-1.8.3 libpt-plugins-oss libpt-plugins-v4l2
  libqthreads-12 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libscrollkeeper0 libshout3
  libsoup2.2-7 libsysfs1 libvte-common libwnck-common libwnck4 libxklavier8
  metacity mkisofs nautilus-data openjade pmount powermgmt-base python-gtk2
  scrollkeeper sgml-data sudo udev
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  busybox cupsys-common debian-archive-keyring fontconfig-config
  gcc-4.1-base gconf2-common klibc-utils libavahi-client3
  libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libcairo2
  libcamel1.2-8 libcupsys2 libdb4.4 libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdrm2
  libedataserver1.2-7 libexif12 libgnutls13 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0
  libgstreamer0.10-0 libgtop2-common libhal-storage1 libhal1 libklibc
  libloudmouth1-0 libnspr4-0d libnss3-0d libsepol1 libsigc++-2.0-0c2a
  libssl0.9.8 libstdc++6 libtasn1-3 libvolume-id0 lsb-base python-pyorbit
  python-support python2.4 python2.4-minimal readline-common tzdata
  xkb-data xserver-xorg-input-wacom
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
  abiword-common abiword-gnome alsa-modules-2.4-386
  alsa-modules-2.4.27-3-386 base-config bluefish bug-buddy capplets
  dia-gnome eog epiphany-browser evolution file-roller gcalctool
  gconf-editor gdm gedit gnome gnome-about gnome-applets
  gnome-control-center gnome-core gnome-cups-manager
  gnome-desktop-environment gnome-games gnome-gv gnome-media gnome-nettool
  gnome-office gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session
  gnome-system-monitor gnome-system-tools gnome-terminal gnome-utils
  gnome-volume-manager gnomemeeting gnumeric goats gpdf gtkhtml3.2
  initrd-tools inkscape kernel-image-2.4.27-3-386 kernel-image-2.6-386
  kernel-image-2.6.8-3-386 kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.27-3-386
  libbonoboui2-0 libeel2-2 libgail-common libgail17 libgal2.2-1
  libgal2.2-common libglibmm-2.4-1 libgnome-desktop-2 libgnomecanvas2-0
  libgnomecupsui1.0-1 libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeui-0 libgtkhtml2-0
  libgtkhtml3.2-11 libgtkmm-2.4-1 libnautilus2-2 libpanel-applet2-0
  libsigc++-2.0-0 libvte4 nautilus nautilus-cd-burner nautilus-media
  planner rhythmbox synaptic totem totem-xine vino yelp zenity
The following packages have been kept back:
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  atlantik atlantikdesigner base-files base-passwd bash bc bin86 bind9-host
  binutils bison bsdmainutils bsdutils bzip2 console-common console-data
  console-tools cpio cpp cpp-3.3 cron cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cvs dash dc
  dcoprss debconf debconf-i18n debconf-utils debianutils defoma dhcp-client
  dictionaries-common dirmngr discover1 discover1-data dnsutils doc-debian
  doc-linux-text docker dosfstools dselect e2fslibs e2fsprogs edict eject
  emacsen-common enscript esound-common exim4 exim4-base exim4-config
  exim4-daemon-light eyesapplet fakeroot fam fdutils fifteenapplet file
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  gcc gcc-3.3 gcc-3.3-base gdb gettext gettext-base gimp gimp-data gmrun
  gnu-efi gnupg gnupg-agent gnupg2 gpgsm grep groff-base grub gs gs-common
  gs-esp gs-gpl gsfonts gzip hicolor-icon-theme hostname hotplug hpijs
  html2text iamerican ibritish icatalan ifupdown imagemagick imlib-base
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  java-package juk kaboodle kaddressbook kaddressbook-plugins kalarm
  kalzium kamera kandy kanjidic kappfinder karm kasteroids kate
  kate-plugins katomic kaudiocreator kbackgammon kbattleship kblackbox
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  libarts1-mpeglib libarts1-xine libartsc0 libasound2 libaspell15 libattr1
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  libcurl3 libcvsservice0 libdb1-compat libdb3 libdb4.2 libdb4.3
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  libevent1 libexpat1 libfam0c102 libfinance-quote-perl libfribidi0
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  libgtk1.2 libgtk1.2-common libgtk1.2-dev libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin
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  libkdegames1 libkgantt0 libkonq4 libkpimexchange1 libkpimidentities1
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  libxaw7 libxcursor1 libxext-dev libxext6 libxft2 libxi-dev libxi6
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  manpages manpages-dev mc mdetect menu menu-xdg mime-support
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  mozilla-firefox mozilla-psm mozilla-thunderbird mpack mpeglib mtools
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  noatun noatun-plugins nvi obconf openbox openoffice.org passwd patch
  pciutils pcmcia-cs perl perl-base perl-modules pidentd pinentry-qt
  pkg-config po-debconf portmap poster ppp pppconfig pppoe pppoeconf
  procmail procps psmisc psutils python python-glade2 python-newt quanta
  quanta-data rcs read-edid reportbug rox-filer samba samba-common
  samba-doc sane-utils sed shared-mime-info sharutils smbclient smbfs ssh
  strace sysklogd sysv-rc sysvinit tar tasksel tcpd tcsh telnet texinfo
  tidy traceroute ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-freefont ttf-opensymbol
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  x-ttcidfont-conf x-window-system-core xbase-clients xfonts-100dpi
  xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xlibmesa-dri xlibmesa-gl
  xlibmesa-glu xlibs-data xlibs-static-dev xml-core xmms xpdf-common
  xpdf-utils xprint xprint-common xscreensaver xscreensaver-gl
  xserver-xfree86 xutils xvnc4viewer zlib1g zlib1g-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  busybox cupsys-common debian-archive-keyring fontconfig-config
  gcc-4.1-base gconf2-common klibc-utils libavahi-client3
  libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libcairo2
  libcamel1.2-8 libcupsys2 libdb4.4 libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdrm2
  libedataserver1.2-7 libexif12 libgnutls13 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0
  libgstreamer0.10-0 libgtop2-common libhal-storage1 libhal1 libklibc
  libloudmouth1-0 libnspr4-0d libnss3-0d libsepol1 libsigc++-2.0-0c2a
  libssl0.9.8 libstdc++6 libtasn1-3 libvolume-id0 lsb-base python-pyorbit
  python-support python2.4 python2.4-minimal readline-common tzdata
  xkb-data xserver-xorg-input-wacom
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  abiword-common abiword-gnome alsa-modules-2.4-386
  alsa-modules-2.4.27-3-386 base-config bluefish bug-buddy capplets
  dia-gnome eog epiphany-browser evolution file-roller gcalctool
  gconf-editor gdm gedit gnome gnome-about gnome-applets
  gnome-control-center gnome-core gnome-cups-manager
  gnome-desktop-environment gnome-games gnome-gv gnome-media gnome-nettool
  gnome-office gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session
  gnome-system-monitor gnome-system-tools gnome-terminal gnome-utils
  gnome-volume-manager gnomemeeting gnumeric goats gpdf gtkhtml3.2
  initrd-tools inkscape kernel-image-2.4.27-3-386 kernel-image-2.6-386
  kernel-image-2.6.8-3-386 kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.27-3-386
  libbonoboui2-0 libeel2-2 libgail-common libgail17 libgal2.2-1
  libgal2.2-common libglibmm-2.4-1 libgnome-desktop-2 libgnomecanvas2-0
  libgnomecupsui1.0-1 libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeui-0 libgtkhtml2-0
  libgtkhtml3.2-11 libgtkmm-2.4-1 libnautilus2-2 libpanel-applet2-0
  libsigc++-2.0-0 libvte4 nautilus nautilus-cd-burner nautilus-media
  planner rhythmbox synaptic totem totem-xine vino yelp zenity
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apt apt-utils aptitude coreutils cupsys debhelper dpkg dpkg-dev
  fontconfig libatk1.0-0 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libc6 libc6-dev
  libcupsimage2 libcupsys2-gnutls10 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libgcc1
  libgconf2-4 libgcrypt11 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-dev libgpg-error0
  libgtk2.0-common libkrb53 libncurses5 libncurses5-dev libncursesw5
  libopencdk8 liborbit2 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpng12-0
  libpng12-dev libpopt0 libreadline5 libselinux1 libusb-0.1-4 libxml2
  libxslt1.1 locales makedev module-init-tools
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  aptitude-doc-en dbus libatk1.0-data libglib2.0-data libtasn1-3-bin
44 packages upgraded, 45 newly installed, 198 to remove and 636 not upgraded.
Need to get 50.9MB of archives. After unpacking 486MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.

This looked a bit scary and i declined it. Should i accept the changes?

3) Here is my sources.list

Code:

deb ftp://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib
deb-src ftp://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing main

deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing/ etch/security-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing/ etch/security-updates main contrib non-free

Hope that this information is useful.

Do you still advise me to go ahead and install aptitude?

rickh · 01-28-2007, 07:37 AM

No. That does look a little scary. See what results you get with "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade --simulate"

That won't actually do the dist-upgrade, but it'll simulate the process and tell you how successful it would be.

maxmil · 01-28-2007, 09:15 AM

I can't post the whole output from apt-get dist-upgrade --simulate because its over 25000 characters long.

Heres the first part:

Code:

Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  akode base-config capplets dbus-1 dbus-glib-1 hotplug kcmlinuz kdelibs-bin
  kdelibs4 kmessedwords libarts1 libboost-python1.32.0 libdps1 libenchant1
  libgc1 libgksuui1.0-0 libglibmm-2.4-1 libgnomecupsui1.0-1 libgtkmm-2.4-1
  libhal-storage0 libhal0 libkcal2a libkdeedu1 libkdenetwork2 libkdepim1
  libkleopatra0a libmagick6 libmimelib1a libmodplug0 libmusicbrainz4
  libmyspell3 libnautilus-burn0 libnautilus2-2 libnewt0.51 libnfsidmap1
  libopenexr2 libostyle1 libpth2 libqt3c102-mt libsigc++-2.0-0 libstlport4.6
  libtag1 libtidy0 libtunepimp2 libxft1 libxklavier8 nautilus-media
  netkit-inetd openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-debian-files
  openoffice.org-l10n-en python2.3 python2.3-glade2 python2.3-gtk2
  python2.3-numeric secpolicy vimpart xfree86-common xlibs xserver-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  akregator avahi-daemon blinken bsh busybox ca-certificates cdrdao cpp-4.1
  cupsys-common dbus debian-archive-keyring dmidecode dvd+rw-tools ekiga evince
  evolution-common evolution-data-server-common fast-user-switch-applet
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The following packages have been kept back:
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829 upgraded, 416 newly installed, 60 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

This is then followed by lines that either start with Inst, Conf or Remv which i presume is the simulation of what the real update would do. The process ends without giving any errors although there is no "All OK" text either.

The simulate option is interesting, would you recommend me to use apt-get instead of aptitude?

rickh · 01-28-2007, 02:04 PM

OK. That looks like a successful upgrade. Use apt-get for this, because its logs and libraries are the same as apt-get, so apt-get is able to handle it better.

Once the upgrade is done, I suggest switching to aptitude because I think it is a superior product. Lots of people disagree with me tho. If you do switch to aptitude, the first command is # aptitude keep-all, then use it exclusively. You can study the aptitude documentation for full functionality, but the easiest way to get started with it is to use it from the command line simply substituting the command "aptitude" for "apt-get."

craigevil · 01-28-2007, 05:06 PM

Maybe I am wrong But I think your Security sources.list is incorrect.

# Testing
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
#Testing Security updates
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib

Other than that your upgrade looks go, I agree with rickh go for it.

maxmil · 01-30-2007, 04:33 AM

OK. I went for it. And it seems to have all gone AOK

I've had some minor problems like my gdm login screen setup getting corrupted and have the new version of apt-get (and aptitude) that complain about not having a valid PUBLIC_KEY but if i need to i'll open these on another thread.

Thanks a million for your help.