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(16th Nov, 2013 10:24 PM)PicatriX Wrote:  

Terminal

Processing triggers for xbian-package-zram-swap ...
stop: Unknown instance:

Also tried apt-get install xbian-update, but got:

Terminal

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xbian-package-initramfs-tools : Breaks: xbian-package-kernel (< 1.3-5.5) but 1.2-1 is to be installed
xbian-update : Depends: ir-keytable but it is not installable
Depends: lsof but it is not installable
Depends: update-notifier-common but it is not installable
Depends: unattended-upgrades but it is not installable
PreDepends: openbsd-inetd but it is not installable
Breaks: xbian-package-samba (< 2.0.0-3) but 1.0 is to be installed
Breaks: xbian-package-config-shell (< 2.1.6-48b) but 2.1.3-3 is to be installed
Breaks: xbian-package-config-xbmc (< 1.1.4-1) but 1.1-2 is to be installed
Breaks: xbian-package-kernel (< 1.3-5.5) but 1.2-1 is to be installed
Breaks: xbian-package-usbmount (< 1.0.4-7) but 1.0-4.1 is to be installed
Breaks: xbian-package-xbmc (< 2.9-10.9)
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

@PicatriX
the first output is not a problem and can be ignored.

this second one is caused by held packages as said on last line. for this case applies the second red colored paragraph in section "TROUBLES" in opening post. solution for this should be to list all held packages as arguments to "apt-get install xbian-update …", in your case specifically

Code:

apt-get install xbian-update xbian-package-xbmc xbian-package-usbmount xbian-package-kernel xbian-package-config-xbmc xbian-package-config-shell xbian-package-samba

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(16th Nov, 2013 11:43 PM)wind-rider Wrote:  Can you explain why it isn't a good idea to use 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to work around the kept-back packages?

@wind-rider

dist-upgrade is supposed to deal with this kind of dependencies. but there was bug in APT on Wheezy7.1 (reported on Debian's bugtrack as well) which was under some circumstances ignoring manually installed upstart and upon dist-upgrade process was forcing it's removal, practically causing uninstall of all xbian packages - because trying to install sysvinit back, breaking dependencies for xbian-update package.

I don't know if the fix was already included in dpkg / apt included in Wheezy 7.2 released on Oct-17 so we better stick to this method. You can run dist-upgrade and check what is offered by APT as solution and simply not continue if APT is warning you about that you probably don't know what you are doing, but we had some individual cases during Beta2 testing when users in this case confirmed with "Yes, I know what I'm doing!" and completely destroyed their installations.