[PlanetCCRMA] fc3: kernel update

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Wed Dec 29 12:42:01 2004


On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 12:35, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Hello Again, Fernando:
> 
> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano writes:
> > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 07:41, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > 
> > > One other question:
> > > 
> > > When doing apt-get dist-upgrade, I'm offered over 200 programs to be
> > > removed and about 3 to be installed. I'm reluctant to do that as this
> > > particular machine serves other functions. Is this usual?
> > 
> > No, it is not usual, please don't say "yes" to the prompt till we find
> > out why this is happening. 
> > 
> > > I'm not 100%
> > > FC kosher, but I don't think I've strayed that far, but perhaps I have.
> > 
> > There is some conflict between the packages you have installed and the
> > Planet CCRMA ones that apt cannot really resolve (without messing up
> > your machine!). 
> > 
> > What are the packages it wants to install? Try installing each one of
> > them explicitly to see what is the effect. We have to track which
> > dependency is currently triggering this problem. 
> > 
> The problems are dev and modutils. See below.

Aha!

You have the fedora core 2 repositories somewhere in your apt
sources.list (this also happened to me in early tests :-) Check
/etc/apt/sources.list and (depending on which version of apt you have
installed /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*

-- Fernando