pkg upgrade problem

Ben Woods woodsb02 at gmail.com
Mon May 25 11:04:27 UTC 2015


On 25 May 2015 at 18:38, Nikolai Wendorf <nick at wholesum.net> wrote:
> I'm seeing the same thing on this machine:
> 1>uname -a
> FreeBSD kolia.dunhurtin.net 8.4-STABLE FreeBSD 8.4-STABLE #0 r283273: Fri
> May 22 07:43:52 EDT 2015 root at kolia.dunhurtin.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KOLIA
> i386
>
> I did a pkg delete on libreoffice but it didn't help - it went on to issue
> the same message regarding octave which I also deleted (had been meaning to
> anyway).  When I had begun the first round of updating I noticed pkg update
> itself to the current version.
>
> I also ran pkg updating that day to see if there were any upgrade
> instructions I'd missed - didn't notice any though
>
> root at kolia:~ # pkg upgrade
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> Fetching meta.txz: 100%    968 B   1.0kB/s    00:01
> Fetching packagesite.txz: 100%    5 MiB   5.3MB/s    00:01
> Processing entries: 100%
> FreeBSD repository update completed. 23867 packages processed.
> Checking for upgrades (713 candidates): 100%
> Processing candidates (713 candidates): 100%
> pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver:
> upgrade rule: upgrade local apache-openoffice-4.1.1_8 to remote
> apache-openoffice-4.1.1_9
> cannot install package apache-openoffice, remove it from request? [Y/n]: n
> pkg: cannot solve job using SAT solver
>
> root at kolia:~ # pkg -v
> 1.5.2
>
> Nick
>

You should be able to resolve it by using the following commands:
# pkg check -Ba
# pkg upgrade

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From: Benjamin Woods
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