Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 01:24:27 -0500 From: Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pgk upgrade solver problems Message-ID: <5482A11B.3030600@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <87wq65v0gx.fsf@elk.localnet> References: <87wq65v0gx.fsf@elk.localnet>
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Carl, I had something like this and decided to regen the pkg database. pkg -Ba (I think) It cleared most of this up. P. On 12/05/2014 23:58, Carl Johnson wrote: > I have just tried to run a 'pkg upgrade', but I am getting a lot of 'SAT > solver' problems. It appeared that it wants to remove the offending > packages, so I did a '^C' after the first few of them to abort any > operations. > > The program output looked normal at first and downloaded all of the > packages, but then I started getting errors like these (long lines): > > pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver: > cannot install package p5-Locale-gettext~devel/p5-Locale-gettext, remove it from request? [Y/n]: > cannot install package xfce~x11-wm/xfce4, remove it from request? [Y/n]: > pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver: > cannot install package Thunar~x11-fm/thunar, remove it from request? [Y/n]: > pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver: > cannot install package glib~devel/glib20, remove it from request? [Y/n]: > cannot install package xfce4-desktop~x11-wm/xfce4-desktop, remove it from request? [Y/n]: > pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver: > cannot install package libxfce4util~x11/libxfce4util, remove it from request? [Y/n]: > cannot install package libreoffice~editors/libreoffice, remove it from request? [Y/n]: > > I can't figure out if these messages mean that it will not upgrade these > packages, or if it means that it will remove the packages. I currently > have pkg version 1.3.8_3 and last upgraded all packages about a month > ago. I also upgraded the base system from 10.0-RELEASE-p12 to > 10.1-RELEASE since then, but I didn't think that should effect the > packages. Does anybody have any suggestions on what these errors mean, > and what I can do about them? > > Thanks for any suggestions.
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