From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 16 23:44:02 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 190E61C6 for ; Sat, 16 May 2015 23:44:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x22e.google.com (mail-ig0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22e]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D728F1365 for ; Sat, 16 May 2015 23:44:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by igcau1 with SMTP id au1so23743260igc.1 for ; Sat, 16 May 2015 16:44:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=y/HmzRzJGGoZWnx+lkH85adIkat0RUqSdBlnFPxURpM=; b=Y1DaDJBGNyWzqMUBikUxuA+KbpvPy54cwUgT9Uc73zdzbANV9bpDg0CPjnhv30XaPq nXNI0vsXuoQRh8KTBpZr7/tRN/+bfbD8RvFUeVqAIl0xDXCuH7OX8kyQoinF2Lj053SK 9IaHJRMUny+3iro3LZ++Mqk9Gp8kSGRlFquh4jMXCPJTzxyc3asgty7PWwOpRc034Brg 75d40ENP6xX/ZhuH24Mh2fQrC3rchmYCMp6d/fsG/TEzcB6Jxl52Z5apPlQxaO7URGpl ifroHka+ScN03E38i5LzlmSMd6IHsPFH0WPr1U5V/bIMZupf4QUPJyacgHE3JhPUZkHk lKAQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.138.70 with SMTP id qo6mr6369588igb.15.1431819841077; Sat, 16 May 2015 16:44:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.236.10 with HTTP; Sat, 16 May 2015 16:44:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5557D47D.2030301@hiwaay.net> References: <5557D47D.2030301@hiwaay.net> Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 07:44:01 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: pkg upgrade problem From: Ben Woods To: "William A. Mahaffey III" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 23:44:02 -0000 On Sunday, May 17, 2015, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > > I just tried to do a 'pkg upgrade -y' from the console CLI as root. I > redirected all output to a file, which I list below: > > > [root@kabini1, /etc, 6:40:13pm] 333 % cat LIST.pkg-upgrade.May2015.txt > Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... > Fetching meta.txz... done > Fetching packagesite.txz... done > Processing entries... done > FreeBSD repository update completed. 23971 packages processed. > Checking for upgrades (536 candidates)... done > Processing candidates (536 candidates)... done > pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver: > pkg: cannot find libreoffice in the request > pkg: cannot solve job using SAT solver > [root@kabini1, /etc, 6:40:16pm] 334 % > > I had cleaned out the /var/db/pkg/ directory of old repo data & meta data. > How do I work around this ? Is this a problem w/ remote repos, or something > at my end (possibly including pilot error :-/ ) ? TIA & have a nice weekend > .... > I wonder if you have the latest version of pkg (can you please check you have 1.5.2 by typing pkg -v). Perhaps try updating pkg first using "pkg upgrade pkg". Then once again try your "pkg upgrade". Regards, Ben -- -- From: Benjamin Woods woodsb02@gmail.com