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. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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