<div dir="ltr"><div>Anyone using a Debian based system knows that dependency its management is top notch (as discussed/debated in other threads).<br><br>A recent case in point is an update to a package that caused a conflict, and a manual choice to be made. This is something that is extremely rare. Even when it happened, someone detects that and in a few days it is fixed and the upgrade goes through seamlessly.<br>
<br>So, yesterday I got notified of updates pending, and when I tried to apply them, I got the conflict below.<br><br></div>So, I just waiting for a day, then did an aptitude update, and lo and behold the conflict was resolved ...<br>
<div><br>Here is what it was yesterday ...<br><br>The following NEW packages will be installed:<br> libavcodec53{a} libavutil51{a} <br>The following packages will be upgraded:<br>
ffmpeg krb5-locales libav-tools libavdevice53 libavfilter2 libavformat53 libgssapi-krb5-2 libgssapi-krb5-2:i386 libk5crypto3 <br> libk5crypto3:i386 libkrb5-3 libkrb5-3:i386 libkrb5support0 libkrb5support0:i386 libpostproc52 libswscale2 <br>
16 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.<br>Need to get 5,541 kB of archives. After unpacking 7,266 kB will be used.<br>The following packages have unmet dependencies:<br> libavutil-extra-51 : Conflicts: libavutil51 but 4:0.8.15-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 is to be installed.<br>
libavcodec-extra-53 : Conflicts: libavcodec53 but 4:0.8.15-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 is to be installed.<br>The following actions will resolve these dependencies:<br><br> Remove the following packages: <br>
1) libavcodec-extra-53 <br>2) libavutil-extra-51 <br><br> Leave the following dependencies unresolved: <br>3) kubuntu-restricted-extras recommends libavcodec-extra-53<br>
<br><br>Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q<br>Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.<br><br></div><div>And here it is today ...<br><br clear="all"></div><div><div>The following packages will be upgraded: <br>
ffmpeg flashplugin-installer krb5-locales libapparmor-perl libapparmor1 libav-tools libavcodec-extra-53 libavdevice53 <br> libavfilter2 libavformat53 libavutil-extra-51 libgssapi-krb5-2 libgssapi-krb5-2:i386 libk5crypto3 libk5crypto3:i386 libkrb5-3 <br>
libkrb5-3:i386 libkrb5support0 libkrb5support0:i386 libpostproc52 libswscale2 <br>21 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.<br>Need to get 5,631 kB of archives. After unpacking 10.2 kB will be used.<br>
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