I noticed some packages were being "held back" when running
# apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
Google suggested I use
# apt-get dist-upgrade
But that resulted in un-met dependencies. Apt-get suggested
#apt-get -f install
But that yields the errors below (gnome-related). I admin this box
remotely using the command line, so I don't need anything related to
X11. Is there an easy way to remove all X related packages? Would that
provide a solution? I really just want to get apache reinstalled.
craiggae:~# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
desktop-base desktop-file-utils docbook-dsssl docbook-xml fontconfig
gnome-desktop-data gnome-doc-tools gnome-icon-theme gstreamer0.8-oss
hicolor-icon-theme libapm1 libart-2.0-2 libaspell15 libatk1.0-0
libbonobo2-0
libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-common libcroco3 libcupsys2-gnutls10
libdb4.1
libeel2-data libexif10 libfam0c102 libfontconfig1 libgcrypt11
libglib2.0-0
libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-data
libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgnomeui-common libgnutls11 libgpg-error0
libgsf-1 libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0 libgstreamer0.8-0
libgtksourceview-common
libgtop2-2 libidl0 libkrb53 libldap2 liblzo1 libopencdk8 liborbit2
libosp4
libostyle1 libpng12-0 libsasl2 libscrollkeeper0 libsmbclient
libstartup-notification0 libtasn1-2 libtiff4 libvte-common
libwnck-common
libxklavier8 libxslt1.1 nautilus-data openjade powermgmt-base
scrollkeeper
sgml-base sgml-data shared-mime-info ucf xml-core
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnome-core gnome-session
The following NEW packages will be installed:
desktop-base desktop-file-utils docbook-dsssl docbook-xml fontconfig
gnome-desktop-data gnome-doc-tools gnome-icon-theme gstreamer0.8-oss
hicolor-icon-theme libapm1 libart-2.0-2 libaspell15 libatk1.0-0
libbonobo2-0
libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-common libcroco3 libcupsys2-gnutls10
libdb4.1
libeel2-data libexif10 libfam0c102 libfontconfig1 libgcrypt11
libglib2.0-0
libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-data
libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgnomeui-common libgnutls11 libgpg-error0
libgsf-1 libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0 libgstreamer0.8-0
libgtksourceview-common
libgtop2-2 libidl0 libkrb53 liblzo1 libopencdk8 liborbit2 libosp4
libostyle1
libpng12-0 libsasl2 libsmbclient libstartup-notification0 libtasn1-2
libtiff4 libvte-common libwnck-common libxklavier8 libxslt1.1
nautilus-data
openjade powermgmt-base scrollkeeper sgml-base sgml-data
shared-mime-info
ucf xml-core
2 packages upgraded, 64 newly installed, 2 to remove and 136 not
upgraded.
17 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/21.6MB of archives. After unpacking 74.5MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 37825 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gnome-session ...
update-alternatives: --slave only allowed with --install
Debian update-alternatives 1.10.28.
Copyright (C) 1995 Ian Jackson.
Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Wichert Akkerman
This is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence
version 2 or later for copying conditions. There is NO warranty.
Usage: update-alternatives --install <link> <name> <path> <priority>
[--slave <link> <name> <path>] ...
update-alternatives --remove <name> <path>
update-alternatives --remove-all <name>
update-alternatives --auto <name>
update-alternatives --display <name>
update-alternatives --list <name>
update-alternatives --config <name>
update-alternatives --set <name> <path>
update-alternatives --all
<name> is the name in /etc/alternatives.
<path> is the name referred to.
<link> is the link pointing to /etc/alternatives/<name>.
<priority> is an integer; options with higher numbers are chosen.
Options: --verbose|--quiet --test --help --version
--altdir <directory> --admindir <directory>
dpkg: error processing gnome-session (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: gnome-core: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you
request:
gnome-session depends on gnome-core (>= 1.4.0.2-3); however:
Package gnome-core is to be removed.
Removing gnome-core ...
dpkg: error processing gnome-core (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
gnome-session
gnome-core
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
craiggae:~#
== Craig A. Smith mailto:craig.a.smith at honeywell.com
<mailto:craig.a.smith at honeywell.com>
Office 763-954-2895 Cell 612.518.2200 FAX 763-954-2313
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