On Sunday 21 December 2003 09:46 am, Richard Bos wrote:

Op zondag 21 december 2003 20:37, schreef Jerome Lyles:

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On Saturday 20 December 2003 12:02 am, Richard Bos wrote:

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The following packages have unmet dependencies:   gabber: Depends: libgal.so.21 E: Broken packages

Why would Synaptic crash over this?

What suse version are you running?

Suse 9.0

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libgal.so.21 is suse-8.2 apt-info> grep libgal.so.21 file* file-8.2:opt/gnome/lib/libgal.so.21 Development_Libraries_C_and_C++/gal file-8.2:opt/gnome/lib/libgal.so.21.1.1 Development_Libraries_C_and_C++/gal

gal is provided by the apt components: base or gnome2 (for suse9.0):

apt-info> grep gal\; pkg-8.2 pkg-9.0 | grep -v src pkg-8.2:gal;0.23-36;i586;base pkg-9.0:gal;0.23-215;i586;gnome2 pkg-9.0:gal;0.24-69;i586;base

First guess is that you don't have the component base (gnome2) listed in sources.list.

rpm ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/ SuSE/9.0-i386 update security base kde gnome2 xfree86 usr-local-bin suser-rbos

Jerome,

what is your conclusion from the information I provided you??

You: 'You'll find the answer, why the upgrade is not performed, in the output that comes after you hit the "Y" button, at that point rpm will called. It might be that rpm finds conflicting files. If so the upgrade will be stopped.' When I did the first apt upgrade (1403 packages) the upgrade process ran uninterrupted for 24 hours. When I did 'rpm -qa | grep some package' it showed that the package didn't have the latest version number. Maybe I needed to update the rpm db? When I used synaptic and checked the list of upgradable packages none had been upgraded. So I upgraded them using Synaptic in smaller batches. Sometimes Synaptic would quit on certain package upgrades which is unexpected

Do you think that apt is able to resolve dependencies that are not provided by any packages?

No I don't. When I ran apt upgrade on the 1403 packages it never quit, it downloaded but didn't upgrade. Synaptic would quit over certain packages but in the cases where this didn't happen Synaptic actually upgraded the package. I understand that apt upgrade works. But its not working for me, Synaptic is but apt upgrade isn't. Maybe I needed to upgrade the rpm db to show the changes apt upgrade made?

Which synaptic version are you running? Is it the latest available (try apt install synaptic).

:~> rpm -qa | grep synaptic synaptic-0.47-rb2