Package installation errors
Ram
i am a new user of linux in general and debian in specific. I recently updated my system with the following commands :
#apt-get update
#apt-get upgrade
#apt-get dist upgrade
I now notice that somehow, I can't run my 'vi' or 'vim' commands anymore. So I tried to track the vi command first but wasn't successful as seen below :
# which vi
# whereis vi
vi: /usr/bin/vi /usr/share/vi /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz
# ls -l /usr/bin/vi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2005-01-22 09:55 /usr/bin/vi -> /etc/alternatives/vi
# vi
-su: vi: command not found
# /usr/bin/vi
-su: /usr/bin/vi: No such file or directory
# cd /usr/bin/
/usr/bin# ls -l vi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2005-01-22 09:55 vi -> /etc/alternatives/vi
/usr/bin# ./vi
-su: ./vi: No such file or directory
/usr/bin# cd /etc/alternatives/
/etc/alternatives# ls -l vi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2005-03-09 18:36 vi -> /usr/bin/vim
/etc/alternatives# /usr/bin/vim
-su: /usr/bin/vim: No such file or directory
/etc/alternatives# cd /usr/bin/
/usr/bin# ls -l vim
ls: vim: No such file or directory
/usr/bin# ls -l vim
ls: vim: No such file or directory
At this time, I tried to re-install vi/vim as follows, but again got errors :
# apt-get install vim-full
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
udev: Depends: hotplug (>= 0.0.20040329-17)
vim-full: Depends: libruby1.8 (>= 1.8.3-3) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: tcl8.4 (>= 8.4.5) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
udev
The following packages will be upgraded:
udev
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 50 not upgraded.
559 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/278kB of archives.
After unpacking 307kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 101947 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace udev 0.056-2 (using .../archives/udev_0.076-6_i386.deb) ...
udev requires a kernel >= 2.6.12, upgrade aborted.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.076-6_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.076-6_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
OK. So at this stage, I tried installing the new kernel image as one of the error messages above suggested :
# apt-get install linux-image-2.6.14-2-386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
linux-image-2.6.14-2-386: Depends: yaird but it is not going to be installed or
initramfs-tools but it is not going to be installed or
linux-initramfs-tool
udev: Depends: hotplug (>= 0.0.20040329-17)
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
kotapc:~# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
udev
The following packages will be upgraded:
udev
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 50 not upgraded.
559 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/278kB of archives.
After unpacking 307kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 101947 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace udev 0.056-2 (using .../archives/udev_0.076-6_i386.deb) ...
udev requires a kernel >= 2.6.12, upgrade aborted.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.076-6_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.076-6_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
#
So what am I doing wrong ?
Thanks for the help in advance
Ram
Peter Nuttall
> Hi all,
> i am a new user of linux in general and debian in specific. I recently
> updated my system with the following commands :
> #apt-get update
> #apt-get upgrade
> #apt-get dist upgrade
>
I'm guessing that you upgraded to unstable, which lives up to its name.
<snip>
> kotapc:~# apt-get -f install
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> udev
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> udev
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 50 not upgraded.
> 559 not fully installed or removed.
this 50 not upgraded, 559 not fully installed business is worrying me.
Are you sure your upgrade and dist-upgrade worked?
> Need to get 0B/278kB of archives.
> After unpacking 307kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
> (Reading database ... 101947 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace udev 0.056-2 (using .../archives/udev_0.076-6_i386.deb)
> ...
> udev requires a kernel >= 2.6.12, upgrade aborted.
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.076-6_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.076-6_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> #
>
i
Right now, the sid kernel images are broken. see
http://wiki.debian.org/TopicDebianDevel for more infomation. Thats
messing up udev, which as you see wants a recent kernel image.
>
>
> So what am I doing wrong ?
I feel I should warn you off running unstable. Its going though a lot of
work right now, which means massive breakages. Also, before sarge was
released, everyone ran unstable or testing becuase woody was too old. I
feel that sarge is still reasonably current.
>
> Thanks for the help in advance
> Ram
Sorry I couldn't be more help
Pete
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Ram
1) My /etc/apt/sources.list has the following :
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main
I assume, I need to change this to :
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free ?
That should start updating the packages from the stable versions ?
2) After this, is it as simple as :
apt-get -u dist-upgrade ?
Also, is there a way to find out what version of stable debian is installed on my system ? I am guessing it is woody but how can I confirm ?
Thanks
Ram
Gabriel
Thanks for the response Pete. I did notice some errors during the upgrade and dist upgrade options. But most unfortunately, there was a power outage before I could capture the errors. So, if I have to revert everything back to the stable version - Sarge, what are steps that I need to follow ? Few things that I can think of from my limited knowledge :
1) My /etc/apt/sources.list has the following :
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main
I assume, I need to change this to :
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free ?
That should start updating the packages from the stable versions ?
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 1001
It tells apt that he can and should downgrade the packages to stable.
More info with man apt_preferences
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