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Re: [LUG] Post-wheezy debian apt-get update removes 'less' WTFFF

 

On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 05:21:17PM +0100, Henry Bremridge wrote:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  man-db : Breaks: less (< 456) but 444-4 is installed.

Hmm, man-db in Debian 7/wheezy does not have a problem being installed
alongside less - what version of man-db is that?

Can you run "apt-cache policy man-db", please?

>From a test box here there does not seem to be a problem with a pure
Debian 7/wheezy setup, perhaps you have something else enabled on
your system (testing/unstable for example)?



$ cat /etc/debian_version
7.0
$ apt-cache policy man-db
man-db:
  Installed: 2.6.2-1
  Candidate: 2.6.2-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.2-1 0
        500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ dpkg -l | grep -E man-db\|less
ii  less                               444-4                        amd64        
pager program similar to more
ii  lesstif2:amd64                     1:0.95.2-1.1                 amd64        
OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
ii  man-db                             2.6.2-1                      amd64        
on-line manual pager
$


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