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slashmais

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Registered: 2018-05-10

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[SOLVED] Cannot upgrade chimaera to daedalus - wacom-dependency failure

I did a netinstall of chimaera and now want to upgrade to daedalus
changed sources-list, did update and now want to upgrade:

I get the following:

$ sudo apt -f upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libwacom9 : Depends: libwacom-common (= 2.6.0-1) but 1.8-2 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

I tried to uninstall wacom* but it wants to uninstall just-about everything else

How can I fix this?

kapqa

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Registered: 2019-01-02

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot upgrade chimaera to daedalus - wacom-dependency failure

if am not mistaken , have done the same just some days ago, it went about just fine.

probably it is metapackages that are being uninstalled; in case you really got the desktop uninstalled , you shoulb be able re-install via "sudo tasksel" your desktop

slashmais

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Registered: 2018-05-10

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot upgrade chimaera to daedalus - wacom-dependency failure

I'm inclined that way too - using openbox, did not use tasksel to install any gui stuff

if no other usable idea comes along will just byte the bullet and let it do it's thing

Altoid

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Registered: 2017-05-07

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot upgrade chimaera to daedalus - wacom-dependency failure

Hello:

How can I fix this?

You may be able to solve it by first manually installing the dependency.
ie: libwacom-common (= 2.6.0-1)

Once installed and present in the system, the dist-upgrade should go smoothly as apt will find it and proceed.

See:
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/poli … 1.84.27.71

https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/libwacom-common   <- 2.14.0-1
https://packages.debian.org/trixie/libwacom-common   <- 2.6.0-1

If that does not work, you may have to uninstall whatever requires libwacom-common before the dist-upgrade.

See here: https://packages.debian.org/search?suit … s=libwacom
It would seem that libwacom2 in Chimaera has been replaced with libwacom9 in Daedalus, Excalibur and Ceres.

See
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/poli … 1.84.27.71 <- Chimaera and earlier
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/poli … 1.84.27.71 <- Daedalus and later

Let us know how you fared with this.

Best,

A.

Last edited by Altoid (2025-11-03 11:07:33)

slashmais

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Registered: 2018-05-10

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot upgrade chimaera to daedalus - wacom-dependency failure

I let it remove its list of almost everything, then upgraded and then cleaned-up the bloat I don' use and re-installed what I needed.
Thx for responding

Altoid

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Registered: 2017-05-07

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot upgrade chimaera to daedalus - wacom-dependency failure

Hello:

Thx for responding

You're welcome.

Best,
A.