Thursday, February 22, 2018

10.10 - Does dist-upgrade require PPA software to be uninstalled first?



I'm still running Ubuntu 10.04 with quite a few PPAs. Amongst the PPAs there is Guiodic (Guido Iodice) Lucid quasi-rolling :) PPA which brings most recent versions of many programs to my desktop.



My steps:




  1. sudo update-manager -d

  2. click on upgrade on the appearing window


  3. wait for the magic to happen: prepare to upgrade and setting new software channels

  4. during 'calculating the changes' I will get the following error message in the panel



    An error occurred, please run Package Manager form the right-click menu or apt-get in a terminal to see what is wrong.
    The error message was: ' Error: Marking the upgrade (E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolver generated breaks, this may be caused by help packages.)'This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies




When I check Synaptic/apt-get I can't find any errors or hint toward broken packages



http://i.stack.imgur.com/di9CR.png




Could this error be because of many PPA versions being newer than 10.04 original versions?



It seems the direct answer to my question is NO. see above comments.


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