Morning all.
A few weeks backs I checked dist-upgrade, something I do often (2-3 times a week). The list is below of what was to be removed and what was no longer required along with upgrades. To my surprise I saw with it so many installed programs that were going to be removed and of course I did not proceed. I changed to stable hoping that when changing back to testing, the dist-upgrade would have been corrected.
I use MATE that I've been testing for more than 2 years and have not seen this issue before.
Any help would be appreciated to continue with testing.
me@sparky:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for me:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
apt-transport-https atril-common avidemux-common avidemux-plugins compton
conky conky-std dctrl-tools engrampa engrampa-common eom-common fonts-dejavu
fonts-freefont-ttf fonts-mathjax freepats game-data-packager
game-data-packager-runtime geoclue-2.0 gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0
gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 gir1.2-keybinder-3.0 gir1.2-peas-1.0
gir1.2-soup-2.4 gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-nice iio-sensor-proxy
ioquake3-server libaften0 libbasicusageenvironment1 libbind9-140 libcddb2
libcdio-cdda2 libcdio-paranoia2 libconfig9 libdc1394-22 libdca0
libdns-export162 libdns162 libdouble-conversion1 libdvbpsi10 libebml4v5
libegl-nvidia0:i386 libexempi3 libfaad2 libflite1 libfluidsynth1 libfs6
libgadu3 libgbm1 libgeoclue-2-0 libgl1-nvidia-glx libgles-nvidia1
libgles-nvidia1:i386 libgles-nvidia2 libgles1-glvnd-nvidia
libgles1-glvnd-nvidia:i386 libgles2 libgroupsock8 libgtkspell0 libgxps2
libharfbuzz-icu0 libhyphen0 libisc-export160 libisc160 libisccfg140
libiso9660-10 libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 libjs-mathjax libkate1 libkeybinder-3.0-0
libkpathsea6 liblavfile-2.1-0 liblavjpeg-2.1-0 liblavplay-2.1-0 liblilv-0-0
liblirc-client0 liblivemedia58 libllvm3.9 libllvm3.9:i386 liblua5.1-0
libmatroska6v5 libmeanwhile1 libmms0 libmodplug1 libmp4v2-2 libmpcdec6
libmuparser2v5 libnvidia-cfg1 libnvidia-cfg1:i386 libnvidia-eglcore:i386
libofa0 libopenh264-2 libopenh264-2:i386 libopusfile0 libprotobuf-c1
libproxy-tools libpython3.5 libpython3.5-minimal libpython3.5-stdlib
libqt4-declarative libqt4-designer libqt4-help libqt4-script
libqt4-scripttools libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-test
libqt4-xmlpatterns libqt5concurrent5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 libqt5network5
libqt5qml5 libqt5script5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5xml5
libqtassistantclient4 libquicktime2 librecad-data libresid-builder0c2a
librpm3 librpm8 librpmio3 librpmio8 libsbc1 libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0
libserd-0-0 libsidplay2 libsord-0-0 libsoundtouch1 libspandsp2 libspectre1
libsratom-0-0 libsrtp0 libuchardet0 libupnp6 libusageenvironment3 libva-drm1
libva-drm1:i386 libva-wayland1 libva-x11-1 libva-x11-1:i386 libva1:i386
libvcdinfo0 libvidstab1.0 libvlc-bin libvlc5 libvlccore8 libvo-aacenc0
libwayland-server0 libwildmidi-config libwildmidi2 libx264-150
libx264-150:i386 libx265-116:i386 libx265-116 libxatracker2 libxcb-xinerama0
libxkbcommon-x11-0 libxnvctrl0 libxvmc1 libzbar0 libzephyr4 libzimg2
liferea-data mate-backgrounds mjpegtools nvidia-driver-bin
nvidia-persistenced nvidia-settings openarena-081-maps openarena-081-misc
openarena-081-players openarena-081-players-mature openarena-081-textures
openarena-085-data openarena-088-data openarena-data openarena-oacmp1
pidgin-data python-glade2 python-gst0.10 python-jinja2 python-libturpial
python-libxml2 python-markupsafe python-oauth python-qt4 python-simplejson
python-sip python3-yaml python3.5 python3.5-minimal qttranslations5-l10n
rpm-common rpm2cpio rtcw-common sparky-desktop-data sparky-editor
sparky-xterm ssft tcpd timidity timidity-daemon twolame ufw vapoursynth
vlc-bin vlc-data vlc-l10n vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-samba
vlc-plugin-video-output vlc-plugin-video-splitter vlc-plugin-visualization
vrms x11-apps x11-session-utils x11-xfs-utils xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi
xfonts-scalable xinit xserver-xorg-legacy yelp-xsl zenity-common
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
atril avidemux avidemux-qt caja ddm dooble eom ffmpeg gir1.2-webkit-3.0
gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 gnuplot-qt gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gufw gzdoom ioquake3
libatrildocument3 libatrilview3 libavdevice57 libegl1-glvnd-nvidia
libegl1-glvnd-nvidia:i386 libegl1-mesa libfarstream-0.2-5 libgail-3-0
libgl1-mesa-glx libgles-nvidia2:i386 libgles2-glvnd-nvidia
libgles2-glvnd-nvidia:i386 libgles2-mesa libglvnd0-nvidia
libglvnd0-nvidia:i386 libglx0-glvnd-nvidia libglx0-glvnd-nvidia:i386
libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0 libgtk-3-bin libopengl0-glvnd-nvidia
libopengl0-glvnd-nvidia:i386 libpurple-bin libpurple0 libqt5gui5
libqt5opengl5 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5quick5 libqt5svg5 libqt5webkit5
libqt5widgets5 libqt5x11extras5 librecad libsdl2-2.0-0 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 libyelp0
liferea marco mate-core mate-desktop-environment-core mate-user-guide mpv
nvidia-driver nvidia-driver-libs nvidia-driver-libs:i386
nvidia-driver-libs-i386:i386 nvidia-egl-icd:i386 openarena pidgin
pidgin-lastfm pidgin-microblog pidgin-musictracker pidgin-twitter
python-webkit qt5-gtk-platformtheme quake3 radiotray rtcw smplayer
smplayer-l10n smplayer-themes sparky-about sparky-aptus sparky-aptus-extra
sparky-aptus-upgrade sparky-codecs sparky-compton sparky-conky
sparky-desktop sparky-gufw sparky-live-usb-creator sparky-office
sparky-usb-formatter sparky-wine steam-launcher task-desktop turpial
virtualbox-5.1 vlc vlc-plugin-qt vlc-plugin-skins2 xorg xserver-xorg
xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev
xserver-xorg-input-libinput xserver-xorg-input-mouse
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-all
xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-cirrus
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64
xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-nvidia xserver-xorg-video-r128
xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware
yad yelp zenity
The following NEW packages will be installed:
e2fsprogs-l10n gnuplot-x11 libbind9-141 libdata-dump-perl libdns-export190
libdns190 libegl1 libgl1 libgl1:i386 libgles2 libglvnd0 libglvnd0:i386
libglx-mesa0 libglx-mesa0:i386 libglx0 libglx0:i386 libisc-export189
libisc189 libisccfg144 libjson-c3 libllvm5.0 libllvm5.0:i386
libopenh264-4:i386 libpython3.6 libpython3.6-minimal libpython3.6-stdlib
librpm8 librpmio8 libtry-tiny-perl libva-drm2 libva-drm2:i386 libva-x11-2
libva-x11-2:i386 libva2 libva2:i386 libvidstab1.1 libwebp6:i386
libwebpmux3:i386 libx264-152:i386 libx265-130:i386 libxcb-xfixes0:i386
python3-debconf python3.6 python3.6-minimal
The following packages have been kept back:
libmikmod3
The following packages will be upgraded:
apt apt-transport-https apt-utils arj at autotools-dev avidemux-common
avidemux-plugins bind9-host binutils binutils-common
binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu bsdmainutils console-setup console-setup-linux
cpp-6 cpp-7 cups cups-bsd cups-client cups-common cups-core-drivers
cups-daemon cups-ipp-utils cups-ppdc cups-server-common curl dbus
dbus-user-session dbus-x11 debconf debconf-i18n debhelper
debian-mate-default-settings debianutils dh-autoreconf
dh-strip-nondeterminism dirmngr distro-info-data dmsetup dnsutils dpkg
dpkg-dev e2fslibs e2fsprogs extlinux fakeroot findutils flashplayer-mozilla
fonts-wine fuse2fs g++-7 game-data-packager game-data-packager-runtime gcc-6
gcc-6-base gcc-6-base:i386 gcc-7 gcc-7-base gcc-7-base:i386
gir1.2-freedesktop gir1.2-glib-2.0 gir1.2-gtk-3.0
gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 gir1.2-soup-2.4 glib-networking
glib-networking-common glib-networking-services gnome-accessibility-themes
gnome-themes-standard gnome-themes-standard-data gnupg gnupg-l10n
gnupg-utils gnupg2 gnuplot gnuplot-data gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client
gpg-wks-server gpgconf gpgsm gpgv gsfonts gtk-update-icon-cache
hexchat-python3 hplip hplip-data hunspell-en-us i965-va-driver
i965-va-driver:i386 ifupdown init init-system-helpers ioquake3-server
iptables irqbalance isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common keyboard-configuration
krb5-locales lib32gcc1 lib32stdc++6 libaio1 libapparmor1 libappstream4
libapr1 libapt-inst2.0 libapt-pkg5.0 libasan3 libasan4 libass9 libatomic1
libaudit-common libaudit1 libavcodec57 libavcodec57:i386 libavfilter6
libavformat57 libavresample3 libavresample3:i386 libavutil55
libavutil55:i386 libbabl-0.1-0 libbinutils libblockdev-crypto2
libblockdev-fs2 libblockdev-loop2 libblockdev-part-err2 libblockdev-part2
libblockdev-swap2 libblockdev-utils2 libblockdev2 libboost-filesystem1.62.0
libboost-iostreams1.62.0 libboost-program-options1.62.0
libboost-serialization1.62.0 libboost-system1.62.0 libbsd0 libbsd0:i386
libcairo-gobject2 libcairo2 libcairo2:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module
libcanberra-gtk0 libcanberra-gtk3-0 libcanberra-gtk3-module libcanberra0
libcap-ng0 libcc1-0 libcgi-pm-perl libcilkrts5 libclass-accessor-perl
libclone-perl libcomerr2 libcomerr2:i386 libcups2 libcups2:i386 libcupscgi1
libcupsimage2 libcupsmime1 libcupsppdc1 libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libdbus-1-3
libdbus-1-3:i386 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdebconfclient0 libdevmapper1.02.1
libdpkg-perl libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-amdgpu1:i386 libdrm-common libdrm-intel1
libdrm-intel1:i386 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-nouveau2:i386 libdrm-radeon1
libdrm-radeon1:i386 libdrm2 libdrm2:i386 libegl-nvidia0 libegl-nvidia0:i386
libexif12 libexpat1 libexpat1:i386 libfaac0 libfaad2 libfakeroot
libfastjson4 libfile-stripnondeterminism-perl libfreetype6 libfreetype6:i386
libgbm1 libgcc-6-dev libgcc-7-dev libgcc1 libgcc1:i386 libgcrypt20
libgcrypt20:i386 libgd3 libgeoip1 libgfortran4 libgirepository-1.0-1
libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libgl1-nvidia-glx
libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 libglapi-mesa libglapi-mesa:i386 libgles-nvidia1
libgles-nvidia1:i386 libgles-nvidia2 libgles1-glvnd-nvidia
libgles1-glvnd-nvidia:i386 libglx-nvidia0 libglx-nvidia0:i386 libgmime-3.0-0
libgnutls30 libgnutls30:i386 libgomp1 libgomp1:i386 libgpg-error0
libgpg-error0:i386 libgpgme11 libgphoto2-6 libgphoto2-l10n libgphoto2-port12
libgssapi-krb5-2 libgssapi-krb5-2:i386 libgtk-3-0 libgtk-3-common
libgucharmap-2-90-7 libharfbuzz-icu0 libharfbuzz0b libhpmud0
libhtml-tree-perl libhttp-cookies-perl libimage-exiftool-perl
libimobiledevice6 libio-socket-ip-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libip4tc0
libip6tc0 libiptc0 libisccc140 libitm1 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18
libjs-sphinxdoc libjson-glib-1.0-0 libjson-glib-1.0-common libk5crypto3
libk5crypto3:i386 libkrb5-3 libkrb5-3:i386 libkrb5support0
libkrb5support0:i386 libldb1 liblsan0 liblwres141 libmad0 libmatedict6
libmbim-glib4 libmbim-proxy libmfx0 libmfx0:i386 libmime-base64-urlsafe-perl
libmm-glib0 libmpx2 libnet-http-perl libnghttp2-14 libnm-glib-vpn1
libnm-glib4 libnm-gtk0 libnm-util2 libnm0 libnma0 libnpth0 libnvidia-cfg1
libnvidia-cfg1:i386 libnvidia-eglcore libnvidia-eglcore:i386
libnvidia-glcore libnvidia-glcore:i386 libnvidia-ml1 libopenmpt0 libosmesa6
libosmesa6:i386 libp11-kit0 libp11-kit0:i386 libpeas-1.0-0 libperl5.26
libpostproc54 libpsl5 libpython-stdlib libpython2.7 libpython2.7-minimal
libpython2.7-stdlib libpython3-stdlib libpython3.5 libpython3.5-minimal
libpython3.5-stdlib libqmi-glib5 libqmi-proxy libquadmath0 librsvg2-2
librsvg2-common libsane-hpaio libsdl-image1.2 libsecret-1-0 libsecret-common
libsmbclient libsoup-gnome2.4-1 libsoup2.4-1 libsoxr0 libsoxr0:i386
libsqlite3-0 libss2 libssl1.0.2 libssl1.1 libssl1.1:i386 libstdc++-7-dev
libstdc++6 libstdc++6:i386 libswresample2 libswresample2:i386 libswscale4
libtalloc2 libtdb1 libtevent0 libthai-data libthai0 libtiff5 libtiff5:i386
libtsan0 libubsan0 libudisks2-0 libvisual-0.4-0 libvisual-0.4-0:i386
libvlc-bin libvlc5 libvlccore8 libwayland-egl1-mesa libwbclient0 libwine
libwine:i386 libwrap0 libwrap0:i386 libwww-perl libxapian30 libxatracker2
libxml-libxml-perl libxml2 libxml2:i386 libxres1 libxslt1.1 libxslt1.1:i386
libxtables12 libzimg2 lintian mate-calc mate-calc-common
mate-notification-daemon mate-notification-daemon-common mate-power-manager
mate-power-manager-common mate-session-manager mate-settings-daemon
mate-settings-daemon-common mate-system-monitor mate-system-monitor-common
mate-themes mate-utils mate-utils-common mesa-vdpau-drivers
mesa-vdpau-drivers:i386 modemmanager network-manager network-manager-gnome
nvidia-alternative:i386 nvidia-detect nvidia-driver-bin nvidia-egl-common
nvidia-egl-icd nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-kernel-support
nvidia-legacy-check:i386 nvidia-smi nvidia-vdpau-driver openarena-081-maps
openarena-081-misc openarena-081-players openarena-081-players-mature
openarena-081-textures openarena-085-data openarena-088-data openarena-data
openarena-oacmp1 openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless openssl p11-kit
p11-kit-modules perl perl-base perl-modules-5.26 php-common php7.0
php7.0-cgi php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-curl php7.0-fpm php7.0-gd
php7.0-json php7.0-mbstring php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-mysql php7.0-opcache
php7.0-readline php7.0-xml php7.0-zip printer-driver-hpcups
printer-driver-hpijs printer-driver-postscript-hp publicsuffix python
python-certifi python-crypto python-dbus python-debianbts python-gi
python-gi-cairo python-gobject python-ldb python-libxml2 python-lxml
python-minimal python-numpy python-pil python-pkg-resources python-samba
python-setuptools python-sip python-talloc python-tdb python-xapian
python2.7 python2.7-minimal python3 python3-certifi python3-dbus
python3-debianbts python3-gi python3-gi-cairo python3-minimal python3-pil
python3-pkg-resources python3.5 python3.5-minimal qt-at-spi qtchooser
qttranslations5-l10n rpm-common rpm2cpio rtcw-common samba-common
samba-common-bin samba-libs smbclient sparky-artwork sparky-core
sparky-core-x86 sparky-info sparky-plymouth startpar syslinux
syslinux-common t1utils task-english task-laptop tasksel tasksel-data tcpd
tzdata udisks2 ufraw-batch va-driver-all va-driver-all:i386 vapoursynth
vdpau-va-driver vdpau-va-driver:i386 vlc-bin vlc-data vlc-l10n
vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-samba vlc-plugin-video-output
vlc-plugin-video-splitter vlc-plugin-visualization wamerican wget wine
wine32:i386 wine64 winetricks xdg-utils
510 upgraded, 44 newly installed, 128 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 868 MB/877 MB of archives.
After this operation, 373 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Hi,
i am new to the forum... but:
This is looking like normal behavior when the system is going (or went) through a major upgrade like from jessie to stretch.
From my own experience, i did have problems after executing this. So i would recommend to properly backup before or to create a "playground a.k.a. copied environment" in order to examine its effect prior to making it happen.
In my case, i was able to identify ONE (yes, only one) package, that led to unwanted removal(s) and by marking it as "manually installed", i could execute the autoremove afterwards without the mess, i had seen during my first attempt.
Good to see, you are taking care of your installation in a responsible manner. I think, only few users are aware of the admins responsabilities, they are taking, when they adopt a linux system.
Good luck!
Indeed bardo, wise to have backups and trial out which I do, did and neglected to add. The outcome was more than a handful to negotiate with graphics, mate-desktop (where I started to reinstall), caja, atril, virtualbox ... .
Perhaps I change from MATE which ran into problems about this time last year and keep trying. This almost looks like a similar issue with
https://sparkylinux.org/forum/index.php/topic,4180.0.htmlAnyway, thanks for the good luck. :)
Sometimes one just have to stay 8) and wait it out.
Make safe upgrade as the first:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
One of the packages is keeping back, so if you don't need it, just try to remove:
sudo apt-get purge ibmikmod3
sudo apt-get autoremove
then refresh package list and try to make dist-upgrade again.
Show your output if still problem exist.
Hello pavroo and thanks for your time.
Here is the output :
me@sparky:~$ sudo apt-get purge libmikmod3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
libsdl-net1.2
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
dosbox* libmikmod3* libsdl-sound1.2*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 125 not upgraded.
After this operation, 3,294 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 219435 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing dosbox (0.74-4.3) ...
Removing libsdl-sound1.2:amd64 (1.0.3-8) ...
Removing libmikmod3:amd64 (3.3.11.1-3) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-17) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-1) ...
me@sparky:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libsdl-net1.2
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 125 not upgraded.
After this operation, 43.0 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 219402 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libsdl-net1.2:amd64 (1.2.8-5) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-17) ...
me@sparky:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://mariadb.mirror.digitalpacific.com.au/repo/10.2/debian stretch InRelease
Ign:2 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:3 http://repo.steampowered.com/steam precise InRelease
Hit:4 http://security.debian.org testing/updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing InRelease
Hit:6 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:7 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release
Hit:9 https://sparkylinux.org/repo testing InRelease
Hit:10 http://www.deb-multimedia.org testing InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
me@sparky:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
atril-common avidemux-common avidemux-plugins compton conky conky-std
dctrl-tools engrampa engrampa-common eom-common fonts-dejavu
fonts-freefont-ttf fonts-mathjax freepats game-data-packager
game-data-packager-runtime geoclue-2.0 gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0
gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 gir1.2-keybinder-3.0 gir1.2-peas-1.0
gir1.2-soup-2.4 gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-nice iio-sensor-proxy
ioquake3-server libaften0 libbasicusageenvironment1 libbind9-140 libcddb2
libcdio-cdda2 libcdio-paranoia2 libconfig9 libdc1394-22 libdca0
libdns-export162 libdns162 libdouble-conversion1 libdvbpsi10 libebml4v5
libegl-nvidia0:i386 libexempi3 libfaad2 libflite1 libfluidsynth1 libfs6
libgadu3 libgbm1 libgeoclue-2-0 libgl1-nvidia-glx libgles-nvidia1
libgles-nvidia1:i386 libgles-nvidia2 libgles1-glvnd-nvidia
libgles1-glvnd-nvidia:i386 libgles2 libgles2-mesa libgroupsock8 libgtkspell0
libgxps2 libharfbuzz-icu0 libhyphen0 libisc-export160 libisc160 libisccfg140
libiso9660-10 libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 libjs-mathjax libkate1 libkeybinder-3.0-0
libkpathsea6 liblavfile-2.1-0 liblavjpeg-2.1-0 liblavplay-2.1-0 liblilv-0-0
liblirc-client0 liblivemedia58 libllvm3.9 libllvm3.9:i386 liblua5.1-0
libmatroska6v5 libmeanwhile1 libmms0 libmodplug1 libmp4v2-2 libmpcdec6
libmuparser2v5 libnvidia-cfg1 libnvidia-cfg1:i386 libnvidia-eglcore:i386
libofa0 libopenh264-2 libopenh264-2:i386 libopusfile0 libprotobuf-c1
libproxy-tools libpython3.5 libpython3.5-minimal libpython3.5-stdlib
libqt4-declarative libqt4-designer libqt4-help libqt4-script
libqt4-scripttools libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-test
libqt4-xmlpatterns libqt5concurrent5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 libqt5network5
libqt5qml5 libqt5script5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5xml5
libqtassistantclient4 libquicktime2 librecad-data libresid-builder0c2a
librpm3 librpm8 librpmio3 librpmio8 libsbc1 libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0
libserd-0-0 libsidplay2 libsord-0-0 libsoundtouch1 libspandsp2 libspectre1
libsratom-0-0 libsrtp0 libuchardet0 libupnp6 libusageenvironment3 libva-drm1
libva-drm1:i386 libva-wayland1 libva-x11-1 libva-x11-1:i386 libva1:i386
libvcdinfo0 libvidstab1.0 libvlc-bin libvlc5 libvlccore8 libvo-aacenc0
libwayland-server0 libwildmidi-config libwildmidi2 libx264-150
libx264-150:i386 libx265-116:i386 libx265-116 libxatracker2 libxcb-xinerama0
libxkbcommon-x11-0 libxnvctrl0 libxvmc1 libzbar0 libzephyr4 libzimg2
liferea-data mate-backgrounds mjpegtools nvidia-driver-bin
nvidia-persistenced nvidia-settings openarena-081-maps openarena-081-misc
openarena-081-players openarena-081-players-mature openarena-081-textures
openarena-085-data openarena-088-data openarena-data openarena-oacmp1
pidgin-data python-glade2 python-gst0.10 python-jinja2 python-libturpial
python-libxml2 python-markupsafe python-oauth python-qt4 python-simplejson
python-sip python3-yaml python3.5 python3.5-minimal qttranslations5-l10n
rpm-common rpm2cpio rtcw-common sparky-desktop-data sparky-editor
sparky-xterm ssft timidity timidity-daemon twolame ufw vapoursynth vlc-bin
vlc-data vlc-l10n vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-samba
vlc-plugin-video-output vlc-plugin-video-splitter vlc-plugin-visualization
vrms x11-apps x11-session-utils x11-xfs-utils xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi
xfonts-scalable xinit xserver-xorg-legacy yelp-xsl zenity-common
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
atril avidemux avidemux-qt caja ddm dooble eom ffmpeg gir1.2-webkit-3.0
gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 gnuplot-qt gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gufw gzdoom ioquake3
libatrildocument3 libatrilview3 libavdevice57 libegl1-glvnd-nvidia
libegl1-glvnd-nvidia:i386 libegl1-mesa libfarstream-0.2-5 libgail-3-0
libgl1-mesa-glx libgles-nvidia2:i386 libgles2-glvnd-nvidia
libgles2-glvnd-nvidia:i386 libglvnd0-nvidia libglvnd0-nvidia:i386
libglx0-glvnd-nvidia libglx0-glvnd-nvidia:i386 libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0
libgtk-3-bin libopengl0-glvnd-nvidia libopengl0-glvnd-nvidia:i386
libpurple-bin libpurple0 libqt5gui5 libqt5opengl5 libqt5printsupport5
libqt5quick5 libqt5svg5 libqt5webkit5 libqt5widgets5 libqt5x11extras5
librecad libsdl2-2.0-0 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2
libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 libyelp0 liferea marco mate-core
mate-desktop-environment-core mate-user-guide mpv nvidia-driver
nvidia-driver-libs nvidia-driver-libs:i386 nvidia-driver-libs-i386:i386
nvidia-egl-icd:i386 openarena pidgin pidgin-lastfm pidgin-microblog
pidgin-musictracker pidgin-twitter python-webkit qt5-gtk-platformtheme
quake3 radiotray rtcw smplayer smplayer-l10n smplayer-themes sparky-about
sparky-aptus sparky-aptus-extra sparky-aptus-upgrade sparky-codecs
sparky-compton sparky-conky sparky-desktop sparky-gufw
sparky-live-usb-creator sparky-office sparky-usb-formatter sparky-wine
steam-launcher task-desktop turpial virtualbox-5.1 vlc vlc-plugin-qt
vlc-plugin-skins2 xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all
xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-libinput
xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu
xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga
xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon
xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident
xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware yad yelp zenity
The following NEW packages will be installed:
e2fsprogs-l10n gnuplot-x11 libbind9-141 libdata-dump-perl libdns-export190
libdns190 libegl1 libgl1 libgl1:i386 libgles2 libglvnd0 libglvnd0:i386
libglx-mesa0 libglx-mesa0:i386 libglx0 libglx0:i386 libisc-export189
libisc189 libisccfg144 libjson-c3 libllvm5.0 libllvm5.0:i386 libomp5
libopenh264-4:i386 libpython3.6 libpython3.6-minimal libpython3.6-stdlib
librpm8 librpmio8 libtry-tiny-perl libva-drm2 libva-drm2:i386 libva-x11-2
libva-x11-2:i386 libva2 libva2:i386 libvidstab1.1 libwebp6:i386
libwebpmux3:i386 libx264-152:i386 libx265-130:i386 libxcb-xfixes0:i386
python3-debconf python3.6 python3.6-minimal
The following packages will be upgraded:
avidemux-plugins bind9-host debconf debconf-i18n dnsutils e2fslibs e2fsprogs
fuse2fs gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 hexchat-python3 hplip hplip-data
i965-va-driver i965-va-driver:i386 isc-dhcp-client libavcodec57
libavcodec57:i386 libavfilter6 libavformat57 libavresample3
libavresample3:i386 libavutil55 libavutil55:i386 libegl-nvidia0
libegl-nvidia0:i386 libgbm1 libgegl-0.3-0 libgl1-mesa-dri
libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libgl1-nvidia-glx
libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 libglapi-mesa libglapi-mesa:i386 libgles-nvidia1
libgles-nvidia1:i386 libgles-nvidia2 libgles1-glvnd-nvidia
libgles1-glvnd-nvidia:i386 libgles2-mesa libglx-nvidia0 libglx-nvidia0:i386
libhpmud0 libisccc140 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 liblwres141 libmfx0
libmfx0:i386 libnvidia-cfg1 libnvidia-cfg1:i386 libnvidia-eglcore
libnvidia-eglcore:i386 libnvidia-glcore libnvidia-glcore:i386 libnvidia-ml1
libosmesa6 libosmesa6:i386 libpeas-1.0-0 libpostproc54 libpython3-stdlib
libsane-hpaio libswresample2 libswresample2:i386 libswscale4 libvlc-bin
libvlc5 libvlccore8 libwayland-egl1-mesa libwww-perl libxatracker2
mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers:i386 nvidia-alternative:i386
nvidia-driver-bin nvidia-egl-icd nvidia-kernel-support nvidia-smi
nvidia-vdpau-driver printer-driver-hpcups printer-driver-hpijs
printer-driver-postscript-hp python3 python3-dbus python3-gi
python3-gi-cairo python3-minimal rpm-common rpm2cpio vapoursynth
vdpau-va-driver vdpau-va-driver:i386 vlc-bin vlc-data vlc-l10n
vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-samba vlc-plugin-video-output
vlc-plugin-video-splitter vlc-plugin-visualization
100 upgraded, 45 newly installed, 127 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 143 MB/145 MB of archives.
After this operation, 375 MB disk space will be freed.
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If i remember well, there was a conflict between the same packages in Debian's main and multimedia repos.
Disable multimedia and sparky repos (and any you have active, excluding debian's main, contrib and non-free).
Disable multimedia repos:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
and put # in the front of multimedia repos.
Disable sparky repos:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sparky-testing.list
and put # in the front of both sparky repos lines.
If youhave other repos active - disable them in the same way, then:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
If still problem, show the last output, and:
apt-cache policy gstreamer1.0-*
21grams-
Encountered similar problems with 3 of our pc's, all running sparkykde64 after last month's upgrades. 2 fixed (sparkykde64) from following suggestions from pavroo and others here. The 3rd continued with the dependency issues and since 'sudo apt-get autoremove' buggered everything further so decided to install sparky multimedia amd64, SparkyKDEamd64 is no longer available......but after a couple of days decided against a OpenBox future and return to my preferred sparkykde just by upgrading. Managed to now have everything running ok.
The following issues may assist-
Repos are still as original- sparky 'd'
Quotedeb https://sparkylinux.org/repo/ testing main
deb-src https://sparkylinux.org/repo/ testing main
and main
Quotedeb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing non-free contrib main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates non-free contrib main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates non-free contrib main
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ testing non-free main
Upgrading through the Sparky Aptus desktop installer didn't initially work, used Synaptic to install kde-full.....still unable to see any options on reboot...the openbox logout feature seems to have problems. Went back and tried installing SparkyKde though Sparky Aptus. This time it came up reporting success however still left with no options.
Added # to auto login in the lightdm.config file...still logging in automatically to openbox.
Installed SDDM and fully removed LightDm via synaptic. On reboot log in with root and password and enter sddm at the next curser prompt this led to a different screen with a OpenBox or Plasma option. The Plasma option started KDE but then halted....couldn't find any simple way to configure sddm so re-installed light-dm through synaptic using the OpenBox option after another reboot. Rebooted again and selected the plasma option that still remained which ran through to the new KDE desktop and now KDE just opens normally using lightdm.
....left out numerous package fixes through aptus and synaptic....maybe the dependency issues were fixed during a upgrade?
NB -Since added the latest kernel
The sparky unstable repo...
Quotedeb http://sparkylinux.org/repo/ unstable main
deb-src http://sparkylinux.org/repo/ unstable main
Thanks pavroo .. Have tagged multimedia, sparky testing, mariadb, virtualbox, google-chrome and steam to give only security and debian testing a clear run.
output as follows:
me@sparky:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for me:
Hit:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.debian.org testing/updates InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
me@sparky:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
atril-common avidemux-common avidemux-plugins compton conky conky-std
dctrl-tools engrampa engrampa-common fonts-dejavu fonts-freefont-ttf
fonts-mathjax freepats game-data-packager game-data-packager-runtime
geoclue-2.0 gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0
gir1.2-keybinder-3.0 gir1.2-peas-1.0 gir1.2-soup-2.4 gstreamer1.0-libav
gstreamer1.0-nice iio-sensor-proxy ioquake3-server libaften0
libbasicusageenvironment1 libbind9-140 libcddb2 libcdio-cdda2
libcdio-paranoia2 libconfig9 libdc1394-22 libdca0 libdns-export162 libdns162
libdouble-conversion1 libdvbpsi10 libebml4v5 libegl-nvidia0:i386 libfaad2
libflite1 libfluidsynth1 libfs6 libgadu3 libgbm1 libgeoclue-2-0
libgl1-nvidia-glx libgles-nvidia1 libgles-nvidia1:i386 libgles-nvidia2
libgles1-glvnd-nvidia libgles1-glvnd-nvidia:i386 libgles2 libgroupsock8
libgtkspell0 libgxps2 libharfbuzz-icu0 libhyphen0 libisc-export160 libisc160
libisccfg140 libiso9660-10 libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0
libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 libjs-mathjax
libkate1 libkeybinder-3.0-0 libkpathsea6 liblavfile-2.1-0 liblavjpeg-2.1-0
liblavplay-2.1-0 liblilv-0-0 liblirc-client0 liblivemedia58 libllvm3.9
libllvm3.9:i386 liblua5.1-0 libmatroska6v5 libmeanwhile1 libmms0 libmodplug1
libmp4v2-2 libmpcdec6 libmuparser2v5 libnvidia-cfg1 libnvidia-cfg1:i386
libnvidia-eglcore:i386 libofa0 libopenh264-4 libopusfile0 libprotobuf-c1
libproxy-tools libpython3.5 libpython3.5-minimal libpython3.5-stdlib
libqt4-declarative libqt4-designer libqt4-help libqt4-script
libqt4-scripttools libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-test
libqt4-xmlpatterns libqt5concurrent5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 libqt5network5
libqt5qml5 libqt5script5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5xml5
libqtassistantclient4 libquicktime2 librecad-data libresid-builder0c2a
librpm3 librpm8 librpmio3 librpmio8 libsbc1 libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0
libserd-0-0 libsidplay2 libsord-0-0 libsoundtouch1 libspandsp2 libspectre1
libsratom-0-0 libsrtp0 libuchardet0 libupnp6 libusageenvironment3
libva-wayland1 libvcdinfo0 libvlc-bin libvlc5 libvlccore8 libvo-aacenc0
libwayland-server0 libwildmidi-config libwildmidi2 libxatracker2
libxcb-xinerama0 libxkbcommon-x11-0 libxnvctrl0 libxvmc1 libzbar0 libzephyr4
libzimg2 liferea-data mate-backgrounds mjpegtools nvidia-driver-bin
nvidia-persistenced nvidia-settings openarena-081-maps openarena-081-misc
openarena-081-players openarena-081-players-mature openarena-081-textures
openarena-085-data openarena-088-data openarena-data openarena-oacmp1
pidgin-data python-glade2 python-gst0.10 python-jinja2 python-libturpial
python-libxml2 python-markupsafe python-oauth python-qt4 python-simplejson
python-sip python3-yaml python3.5 python3.5-minimal qttranslations5-l10n
rpm-common rpm2cpio rtcw-common sparky-desktop-data sparky-editor
sparky-xterm ssft timidity timidity-daemon twolame ufw vlc-bin vlc-data
vlc-l10n vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-qt vlc-plugin-samba
vlc-plugin-skins2 vlc-plugin-video-splitter vlc-plugin-visualization vrms
x11-apps x11-session-utils x11-xfs-utils xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi
xfonts-scalable xinit xserver-xorg-legacy yelp-xsl zenity-common
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
atril avidemux avidemux-qt caja ddm dooble ffmpeg gir1.2-webkit-3.0
gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 gnuplot-qt gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gufw gzdoom ioquake3
libatrildocument3 libatrilview3 libavdevice57 libegl1-glvnd-nvidia
libegl1-glvnd-nvidia:i386 libegl1-mesa libfarstream-0.2-5 libgail-3-0
libgles-nvidia2:i386 libgles2-glvnd-nvidia libgles2-glvnd-nvidia:i386
libgles2-mesa libglvnd0-nvidia libglvnd0-nvidia:i386 libglx0-glvnd-nvidia
libglx0-glvnd-nvidia:i386 libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0 libgtk-3-bin
libopengl0-glvnd-nvidia libopengl0-glvnd-nvidia:i386 libpurple-bin
libpurple0 libqt5gui5 libqt5opengl5 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5quick5
libqt5svg5 libqt5webkit5 libqt5widgets5 libqt5x11extras5 librecad
libsdl2-2.0-0 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2
libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 libyelp0 liferea marco mate-core
mate-desktop-environment-core mate-user-guide mpv nvidia-driver
nvidia-driver-libs nvidia-driver-libs:i386 nvidia-driver-libs-i386:i386
nvidia-egl-icd:i386 openarena pidgin pidgin-lastfm pidgin-microblog
pidgin-musictracker pidgin-twitter python-webkit qt5-gtk-platformtheme
quake3 radiotray rtcw smplayer smplayer-l10n smplayer-themes sparky-about
sparky-aptus sparky-aptus-extra sparky-aptus-upgrade sparky-codecs
sparky-compton sparky-conky sparky-desktop sparky-gufw
sparky-live-usb-creator sparky-office sparky-usb-formatter sparky-wine
steam-launcher task-desktop turpial vapoursynth virtualbox-5.1 vlc
vlc-plugin-video-output xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core
xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-libinput
xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu
xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga
xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon
xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident
xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware yad yelp zenity
The following NEW packages will be installed:
e2fsprogs-l10n gnuplot-x11 libbind9-141 libdata-dump-perl libdns-export190
libdns190 libegl1 libgl1 libgl1:i386 libgles2 libglvnd0 libglvnd0:i386
libglx-mesa0 libglx-mesa0:i386 libglx0 libglx0:i386 libisc-export189
libisc189 libisccfg144 libjson-c3 libllvm5.0 libllvm5.0:i386 libpython3.6
libpython3.6-minimal libpython3.6-stdlib librpm8 librpmio8 libtry-tiny-perl
libva2 libva2:i386 libxcb-xfixes0:i386 python3-debconf python3.6
python3.6-minimal
The following packages will be upgraded:
bind9-host debconf debconf-i18n dnsutils e2fslibs e2fsprogs fuse2fs
gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 hexchat-python3 hplip hplip-data i965-va-driver
i965-va-driver:i386 isc-dhcp-client libegl-nvidia0 libegl-nvidia0:i386
libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx
libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libgl1-nvidia-glx libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 libglapi-mesa
libglapi-mesa:i386 libgles-nvidia1 libgles-nvidia1:i386 libgles-nvidia2
libgles1-glvnd-nvidia libgles1-glvnd-nvidia:i386 libglx-nvidia0
libglx-nvidia0:i386 libhpmud0 libisccc140 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18
liblwres141 libnvidia-cfg1 libnvidia-cfg1:i386 libnvidia-eglcore
libnvidia-eglcore:i386 libnvidia-glcore libnvidia-glcore:i386 libnvidia-ml1
libosmesa6 libosmesa6:i386 libpeas-1.0-0 libpython3-stdlib libsane-hpaio
libwayland-egl1-mesa libwww-perl libxatracker2 mesa-vdpau-drivers
mesa-vdpau-drivers:i386 nvidia-alternative:i386 nvidia-driver-bin
nvidia-egl-icd nvidia-kernel-support nvidia-smi nvidia-vdpau-driver
printer-driver-hpcups printer-driver-hpijs printer-driver-postscript-hp
python3 python3-dbus python3-gi python3-gi-cairo python3-minimal rpm-common
rpm2cpio
69 upgraded, 34 newly installed, 126 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 116 MB/116 MB of archives.
After this operation, 382 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
apt-cache policy gstreamer1.0-*:
me@sparky:~$ apt-cache policy gstreamer1.0-*
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly-amr:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
gstreamer1.0-videosink:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
gstreamer1.0-alsa:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-1
Version table:
1.12.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly-dbg:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-1
Version table:
1.12.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-plugins-mpeg2enc:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly-doc:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-1
Version table:
1.12.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 Packages
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-1
Version table:
1.12.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-rtsp-dbg:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-1
Version table:
1.12.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-plugins-faac:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
gstreamer1.0-tools:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-1
Version table:
1.12.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:
Installed: 1.12.3-1
Candidate: 1.12.3-1
Version table:
*** 1.12.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
gstreamer1.0-qapt:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
gstreamer1.0-espeak:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.4.0-3
Version table:
0.4.0-3 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-nice:
Installed: 0.1.14-1
Candidate: 0.1.14-1
Version table:
*** 0.1.14-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
gstreamer1.0-videosource:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
gstreamer1.0-crystalhd:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:0.0~git20110715.fdd2f19-12
Version table:
1:0.0~git20110715.fdd2f19-12 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.10.32.debian-1
Version table:
0.10.32.debian-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-rtsp:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-1
Version table:
1.12.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:
Installed: 1:1.12.2-dmo1
Candidate: 1:1.12.2-dmo1
Version table:
*** 1:1.12.2-dmo1 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.12.3-2 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base:
Installed: 1.12.3-1
Candidate: 1.12.3-1
Version table:
*** 1.12.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
gstreamer1.0-audiosource:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-videoparsers:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
gstreamer1.0-plugins-really-bad:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:
Installed: 1.12.3-1
Candidate: 1.12.3-1
Version table:
*** 1.12.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
gstreamer1.0-pocketsphinx:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.8+5prealpha-2+b1
Version table:
0.8+5prealpha-2+b1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-dbg:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-2
Version table:
1.12.3-2 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-doc:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-2
Version table:
1.12.3-2 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 Packages
gstreamer1.0-visualization:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-faad:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
gstreamer1.0-omx-generic:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-2
Version table:
1.12.3-2 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-lame:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
gstreamer1.0-x:
Installed: 1.12.3-1
Candidate: 1.12.3-1
Version table:
*** 1.12.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
gstreamer1.0-vaapi-doc:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-2
Version table:
1.12.3-2 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 Packages
gstreamer1.0-omx-generic-config:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-2
Version table:
1.12.3-2 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-libav:
Installed: 1:1.12.3-dmo1
Candidate: 1:1.12.3-dmo1
Version table:
*** 1:1.12.3-dmo1 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.12.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-dbg:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-1
Version table:
1.12.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good-dbg:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-1
Version table:
1.12.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-doc:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-1
Version table:
1.12.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 Packages
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good-doc:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-1
Version table:
1.12.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 Packages
gstreamer1.0-clutter-3.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 3.0.24-1
Version table:
3.0.24-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-vaapi:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-2+b1
Version table:
1.12.3-2+b1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-libav-dbg:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-1
Version table:
1.12.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-packagekit:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.1.7-1
Version table:
1.1.7-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-omx-bellagio-config:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-2
Version table:
1.12.3-2 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-ffmpeg:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly:
Installed: 1:1.12.3-dmo1
Candidate: 1:1.12.3-dmo1
Version table:
*** 1:1.12.3-dmo1 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.12.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
gstreamer1.0-doc:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.12.3-1
Version table:
1.12.3-1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 Packages
gstreamer1.0-audiosink:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
me@sparky:~$
Thanks for the heads up Wombat.
Yeah. :) Webmin came to the rescue.
Found that gnuplot had unmet dependencies (-nox, -qt and -x11 would not work together). An old plotting program I used a while back.
Next was libegl1-mesa (libegl1 and libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0 (<1.12.4 but 1:1.12.2-dmo1 was to be installed)
which in turn libwebkit2gtk-4.0.37 and -gtk2 depended upon.
Removed the broken packages and additional files and configurations and dist-upgrade behaved normally.
Thanks for the help and continued enthusiasm has been restored.