On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:17:17PM -0500, Carl Reynolds wrote:
Axel Thimm wrote:
.... remove all overlapping i386 packages. For servers that don't need openoffice or HelixPlayer that's not a major loss.
http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=326 http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=334
See
http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=334#c2
for how to make your system "singlelib".
Sorry to be silent on this for so long, I have been trying to use Axel's advice. The technique outlined in bug report 334 allowed me to remove all duplicate packages and allowed apt-get update to complete with no errors or warnings.
However, when I run apt-get dist-upgrade it offers to remove my entire system
I've included the output from the command below, but I'm thinking of switching over to yum. It seems to work better on this system.
Why does apt-get say it wants to remove all those packages? I especially don't understand what's happening with bash, grep, sed, gawk, etc. Shouldn't those be left alone? As you can see I aborted the run when it asked me if I wanted to continue.
Try
apt-get check
first to see, whether apt detects something irregular in the rpm database. Then try
apt-get upgrade
(no dist). Any packages "held back" are candidated to have caused the panic to apt-get dist-upgrade.