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How can I upgrade a package without removing its dependencies?

rated 0 times [ 0] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 1159 / 2 Years ago, thu, june 2, 2022, 5:05:38

For some reason (having used xorg-edgers in the past might be part of that), I still have a very old X server installed:

xorg   7.6+7ubuntu7.1

xserver-xorg-core  1.10.4-1ubuntu4.2

xserver-xorg-video-intel  2.16.0+git20111011.823a4272-0ubuntu0sarvatt~natty

when I try dist-upgrade, aptitude wants to remove 255 packages first (acrobat, bluez-alsa, ..., ia32-libs, ..., xserver-xorg-video-* to name a few)

Is there a way to update packages forcing Ubuntu to ignore any dependencies it might think that could theoretically be violated?

On a RPM-based system, I'd use rpm --force --nodeps

Note: I already removed the xorg-edgers ppa.

Note 2: I'm trying to upgrade with aptitude safe-upgrade and aptitude dist-upgrade

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answered 2 Years ago tubequ · Accepted Answer

It seems that aptitude contains new code to resolve dependencies. This code is ... could be better. :-)

In my case, running apt-get upgrade just offered to upgrade the 13 xorg packages and leave the rest of my system alone.

So if your aptitude hangs itself in the dependency graph (= when installing/upgrading, it wants to remove hundreds of packages first), give the old tools another try.