Hi,

Very new to Debian, so far so very very good.

Running Debian Testing, having to relearn a lot as I'm coming from an RPM-based
distro. This one I don't want to leave to trial and error, though.

The update applet is telling me there are updates available, but I get an
error that 'not all updates can be installed'. I've uploaded a screenshot of
what I saw here:

http://img261.imageshack.us/done.php?l=img261/4923/synapticax3.png

I notice that it says this could be caused by unofficial software sources. This
is my sources.list:

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1
20080804-15:10]/ etch contrib main

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1
20080804-15:10]/ etch contrib main

deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ testing main non-free contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main

deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main

#deb http://www.os-works.com/debian testing main
#deb-src http://www.os-works.com/debian testing main

deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
restricted

deb-src http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
restricted

Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages are
preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the question...? Not sure.

Many thanks for any help.

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JoeHill wrote:

> Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages are
> preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the question...? Not sure.

...forgot to mention, I did run the 'smart upgrade', but I did not see what the
'proposed removals' were, which is why I'm concerned.

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On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote:
JoeHill wrote:


Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages are
preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the question...? Not sure.


...forgot to mention, I did run the 'smart upgrade', but I did not see what the
'proposed removals' were, which is why I'm concerned.


This is why I never use synaptics, but stick with apt-get, the tool
that God Intended Us To Use.


Besides, it will explicitly tell you what the problem packages are.

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Ron Johnson wrote:

> On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote:
> > JoeHill wrote:
> >
> >> Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages are
> >> preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the question...? Not
> >> sure.
> >
> > ...forgot to mention, I did run the 'smart upgrade', but I did not see what
> > the 'proposed removals' were, which is why I'm concerned.
>
> This is why I never use synaptics, but stick with apt-get, the tool
> that God Intended Us To Use.
>
> Besides, it will explicitly tell you what the problem packages are.

node1:/home/joehill# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
hal
The following packages will be upgraded:
djvulibre-desktop libapr1 libaudio-dev libaudio2 libdjvulibre21
libenchant1c2a libhal-dev libhal-storage1 libhal1 libmono-cairo1.0-cil
libmono-corlib1.0-cil libmono-corlib2.0-cil libmono-data-tds1.0-cil
libmono-data-tds2.0-cil libmono-i18n1.0-cil libmono-i18n2.0-cil
libmono-security1.0-cil libmono-security2.0-cil libmono-sharpzip0.84-cil
libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil libmono-sqlite2.0-cil libmono-system-data1.0-cil
libmono-system-data2.0-cil libmono-system-web1.0-cil
libmono-system-web2.0-cil libmono-system1.0-cil libmono-system2.0-cil
libmono0 libmono1.0-cil libmono2.0-cil libpci3 libperl5.10 libpq5
mono-common mono-gac mono-jit mono-runtime pciutils perl perl-base perl-doc
perl-modules screenlets tzdata
44 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

I'll accept that you're right about apt-get in general, but it's still not
telling me why hal is being held back.

I didn't see anything in the manpage to give me more verbose information. I'm
not saying it's not there, just that I didn't see it

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