Description of problem: I just used the new pre-extras apt mirror at download.fedora.us to do an upgrade and when it upgraded apt, it removed synaptic. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.51 How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. Point apt sources.list to new pre-extras apt at download.fedora.us 2. Attempt to install new apt using apt-get. Actual results: $ apt-get install apt Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded apt (0.5.15cnc6-11 => 0.5.15cnc6-12.r362) The following packages will be REMOVED: synaptic (0:0.51-1) 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 removed and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 1023kB of archives. After unpacking 2563kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://download.fedora.us fedora/3/i386/extras apt 0:0.5.15cnc6-12.r362 [1023kB] Fetched 1023kB in 7s (131kB/s) Checking GPG signatures... Committing changes... Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:apt ########################################### [100%] Done. Expected results: apt should have been upgraded and synaptic should have been left alone (or upgraded) but *not* removed Additional info:
*** Bug 145428 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Upon attempting to reinstall synaptic got this message, which suggests that the problem is with the version of apt: $ sudo apt-get install synaptic Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: synaptic: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6.so.0 E: Broken packages
I've committed Synaptic 0.55.3 to Extras CVS, which, when rebuilt (== when Seth finds time), will fix this.
*** Bug 145274 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***