Unpacking ad infinitum
Everytime I run `apt-get upgrade', apt wants to reinstall `doc-linux-text' and
`doc-linux-html'.
| [20:03:21]~# apt-get upgrade -u
| Reading Package Lists... Done
| Building Dependency Tree... Done
| The following packages have been kept back
| gtk-doc-tools latex2html mailtools cdlabelgen perl perl-debug libdbi-perl
| acct libhtml-parser-perl perl-base libgnome-perl libnet-telnet-perl
| perl-suid info2www libtimedate-perl dpkg-dev libnet-perl libmime-base64-perl
| fvwm-common sgml-data libwww-perl perlmagick weblint
| The following packages will be upgraded
| doc-linux-text doc-linux-html
| 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23 not upgraded.
| Need to get 0B/8109kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
| Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
| (Reading database ... 70724 files and directories currently installed.)
| Preparing to replace doc-linux-text 1999.06-1 (using /var/cache/apt/archives/doc-linux-text_1999.06-1_all.deb) ...
| Unpacking replacement doc-linux-text ...
| Preparing to replace doc-linux-html 99.06-1 (using .../doc-linux-html_99.06-1_all.deb) ...
| Unpacking replacement doc-linux-html ...
| Setting up doc-linux-text (1999.06-1) ...
| Setting up doc-linux-html (99.06-1) ...
|
| [20:04:14]~#
Removing the *debs from /var/cache/apt/archives/ doesn't help: then apt just
refetches them.
Any solutions?
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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