[PlanetCCRMA] Package Conflicts and other stuff

[Richard Benedict]

Hi all!

I was just looking at the thread in the mailing list archives for March, 
"[PlanetCCRMA] apt-get dist-upgrade problem" because I, too, have had 
openSSL problems.  In Synaptic, for instance, openSSL was listed both as 
'already installed' and 'available'.  So I tried

apt-get --reinstall install openssl

with limited results i.e. apt-get dist-upgrade hung, then I went into 
Synaptic and clicked 'Fix Broken', then 'Upgrade', then Synaptic hung.  
:-P   So I relogged into X and did

rpm --rebuilddb

which seems to have done the trick, but not without some sweatloss:

# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Collecting File Provides... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  glibc-debug: Depends: glibc (= 2.3.2-4.80) but 2.2.93-5 is installed
               Depends: glibc-devel (= 2.3.2-4.80) but 2.2.93-5 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
[root@localhost richard]# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Collecting File Provides... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  glibc glibc-common glibc-devel
The following packages will be upgraded
  glibc glibc-common glibc-devel
3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 19 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/18.5MB of archives. After unpacking 675kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Executing RPM (-Uvh)...
Preparing...                ########################################### 
[100%]
   1:glibc-devel            ########################################### 
[ 33%]
   2:glibc-common           ########################################### 
[ 67%]
   3:glibc                  warning: /etc/nsswitch.conf created as 
/etc/nsswitch.conf.rpmnew
########################################### [100%]

So it looks like everything's okay, but I'm kinda concerned about that 
warning message near the end.  Other than that, I'd just like to take 
the opportunity to say that I'm really enjoying the software the Planet 
makes available to us, and it's a great environment to learn in.  Thank 
you, Fernando, and long live the Planet! :-)

Richard Benedict