[ATrpms-users] Re: package dependency

[Andy Barr]

On Apr 4, 2005 8:06 AM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:57:12AM -0400, Andy Barr wrote:
> > On Apr 3, 2005 10:50 PM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 10:43:21PM -0400, Andy Barr wrote:
> > > > On Apr 3, 2005 7:40 PM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 04:33:07PM -0400, Andy Barr wrote:
> > > > > > I'm trying to upgrade my FC1 system using apt and am trying to
> > > > > > understand why when trying to upgrade some packages, apt wants to
> > > > > > remove many of the packages I uses such as kde.
> > > > >
> > > > > Try a simple apt-get upgrade first to get the well behaving packages
> > > > > out of the way.
> > > > >
> > > > > The try installing the suspicious package one by one until you hit the
> > > > > one that unistalls the others.
> > > > >
> > >
> > > The output below doesn't say so, everything looks OK. Only one package
> > > gets renamed and is listed in the removes.
> >
> > Right.  I was able to update glib2.  Next on the list is libavc1394
> > and it wants to remove, kde, kdebase, kino and various other things I
> > need.  Any ideas?
> 
> Not really, try to identify the packages' origin. Looks like some
> package doesn't like libavc1394 and kicks out the rest.
> 
> What does apt-get install libavc1394 kde kdebase say?
> 
> BTW don't trust -s, better to leave it and abort the transaction when
> asked for confirmation.
> 

That worked... (see below)  I will have to remember that trick in the future. 
It now looks like if I remove mythbrowser (which I don't use anyhow) I
can upgrade to Myth 0.17.  I'll try it tonight.

Thanks for the help.
Andy

[root at mythtv install_software]# apt-get  install libavc1394 kde kdebase
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
kde is already the newest version.
kdebase is already the newest version.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libavc1394_0 libraw1394 libraw1394_5 libraw1394_8 librom1394_0
The following packages will be upgraded
  libavc1394 libraw1394
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libavc1394_0 libraw1394_5 libraw1394_8 librom1394_0
2 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 removed and 32 not upgraded.