[Freedombox-discuss] Unmet dependencies, "Applying updates failed".

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting James Valleroy via Freedombox-discuss (2020-12-16 03:50:50)
> On 12/14/20 6:00 PM, A. F. Cano wrote:
> > But the problem after all these packages got installed is that  there
> > are still unmet dependencies.  From cockpit->software updates:
> > 
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >   php-common: Breaks: php7.3-common but 7.3.15-3 is to be installed
> >   libgc1: Conflicts: libgc1c2 but 1:7.6.4-0.4 is to be installed
> >   fuse3: Breaks: fuse
> >   libgcc1: Depends: gcc-10-base (= 10.1.0-1) but 10.2.0-19 is to be installed
> >   python3-django: Breaks: python-django-common
> >   libmailutils5: Depends: mailutils-common (= 1:3.5-3) but 1:3.10-3 is to be installed
> >   libgc1c2: Conflicts: libgc1 but 1:8.0.4-3 is to be installed
> > 
> > What is the proper way to deal with this?  I've tried to keep the
> > FreedomBox completely standard, not installing anything manually.
> > Could this be related to backports?
> 
> This issue is common on testing/bullseye (until it is frozen for 
> release).
> 
> The manual solution is to try upgrading just one of the listed 
> packages (with "apt install <package>"), and see if that would lead to 
> any important packages (freedombox, apps) being removed. If it would 
> remove an important package, then you can cancel the upgrade. It may 
> remove some non-important or obsolete packages, such as python2 
> packages, and that is ok.

Sounds like the underlying issue for this is packages wrongly marked as 
manually installed - check with this command:

  apt-mark showmanual

If you find that packages you didn't explicitly install yourself gets 
marked as manually installed, then see bug#742977 and consider 
contributing to that bugreport.


 - Jonas

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