On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 04:14:14 -0500
Chris Graham <chrisdgraham22@...> wrote:

> Wheezy and Jessie/testing 7.2.. Have same prob with Mint 15 and
> verious 2 year old Ubuntus.
> 
> It's not the fault of Trinity devs at all that I can tell. Yes, I do mess
> with repos and possibly make mistakes that way.
> 
> It's a "feature" of later Wheezy versions of apt-get. Somebody decided
> that Debian needed to be "cleaned up" every time you install something,
> and based on researching this on Debian messageboards, the majority
> insist on believing this is a good idea. Tough luck for me I guess.
> 
> So, for example, if I try to upgrade my totally obsolete Iceweasel or
> Firefox, apt-get will insist on removing Trinity, Xorg and countless
> other vitally important items. In fact, I can't install or upgrade
> anything now.
> 

If you mix repositories, never use apt-get. run aptitude and
look what exactly causes this, because its most likely some manually
installed package from 3-rd party/unstable that has higher priority in
apt-get conflict resolution logic than auto installed packages (including
trinity and Xorg). Look for a broken pacakges in aptitude and find a root
source for conflict, than uninstall/hold it.


-- 
  Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky@...)