Problem with updating

[Petko]

On 02/12/2012 02:40 AM, Jean-Baptiste Lallement wrote:
> Hi Petko,
>
> Current upgrade/installation issue on Precise amd64 is caused by 
> webkit that fails to build on i386.
>
> webkit 1.7.5 build successfully on amd64 but not on i386. 1.7.4 is 
> available on i386.
>
> Since common binary packages are built on i386 
> (libwebkitgtk-3.0-common and libwebkitgtk-1.0-common in this case) and 
> the latest version is not available, the result is a dependency break.
>
> If you run a partial upgrade the resolver will attempt to upgrade the 
> most important packages to the cost of removing the less important 
> ones if necessary. In the case of webkit, it decides to remove 
> gir1.2-webkit-3.0, and, as a consequence, software-center (depends on 
> gir1.2-webkit-3.0) and ubuntu-desktop (depends on software-center)
>
> You can install the newest version of all packages not depending on 
> webkit by running a normal upgrade:
>  - with update-manager: do not click on 'partial upgrade' and select 
> 'close' instead. update-manager will only select packages that can be 
> safely upgraded.
>  - or from the command line run:
> $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -u upgrade
>
>
> Regarding webkit, the only thing you can do is to wait until it is 
> available from your local archive.
>
>
Thanks for the info , I'll wait it out , I guess it wouldn't be more 
than a few days .

Petko