[LBo] Did I FUBAR My Debian Install?

[Lonnie Mullenix]

On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 15:42 -0500, Rob Matherly wrote:
> Hey all;
> 
> I recently "upgraded" (i.e., wiped the drive and re-installed) to Debian
> 4.0.  It ran fine for a while, then I goofed and apparently added an apt
> repository that I shouldn't have.  I belive I may have incorporated
> something into my system that's causing broken dependencies.
> 
> I believe it started when I tried to solve a problem with no audio
> accompanying flash video in Firefox.  Somewhere, I installed something
> that attempted to upgrade libc6.  In the process, tzdata and something
> else were removed.  (I later reinstalled tzdata from a web download.)
> 
> Now, if I attempt to install *anything*, Synaptic tells me that I must
> first remove basically my entire system; the kernel package, x.org, kde,
> openoffice, etc.
> 
> What in the world did I do?  I've removed the suspected repository (I
> believe I added a "testing" or "unstable" branch to install OpenTTD with
> Synaptic)
> 
> - Rob

It sounds like you may have added a testing option to your apt-sources
list, and that would then want to do a HUGE system upgrade.  The best
thing for you to do, FIRST, is check and see what you have in your;

/etc/apt/sources.list

and you will find out whether or not that is the case.

It is usually possible to simply comment out the line that has the
testing or unstable sources and then re-do the apt-get update.

I cannot help with synaptic, as I have never used it.  I have always
used apt-get from the command line.

HTH,

Lonnie


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