Bug#733512: Error updating mate-polkit-common

[Franklin McCormick]

On 29/12/13 11:19 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 12/29/2013 05:13 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
>>     * What led up to the situation?
>>
>>       Updating via apt-get
>>
>>
>>     * What was the outcome of this action?
>>
>>       dpkg error
>
> That happens when trying to update the package when using the MATE
> Debian repository at the same time and is hard to avoid since
> the MATE repositories contain "mate-polkit" while Debian has split
> the package into "mate-polkit" and "mate-polkit-common". We could
> maybe add a "Breaks" here, but mixing different repositories is
> problematic anyways.


   Strange because AFAIK my MATE desktop came from the Debian repositories.

   A second problem I am having is two MATE packages which won't update:


Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
   libmateweather-common libmatewnck-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
frank at frank-debian:~$

   This has been the situation for months.


>
> As a hotfix, you can run:
>
> apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite" -f install


    Yes that is basically what I did.

Thanks


Frank