apt-get install wants to remove essential packages

[Tapio Lehtonen]

Have I messed up my proxmox 3.1 installation? Trying to install some packages makes APT wantto remove packages that seem quite essential. I did install several other packages, they installednicely without side effects.

# apt-get install netcat-openbsd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
apt-transport-https dtach iputils-arping libapt-pkg-perl libio-multiplex-perl liblzo2-2 lzop resource-agents-pve socat
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed: pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve
The following packages will be REMOVED:
proxmox-ve-2.6.32 pve-manager qemu-server
The following NEW packages will be installed: netcat-openbsd pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 33.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 69.6 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

I assume proxmox will break if I let APT remove proxmox-ve-2.6.32 pve-manager qemu-server

 

[udo]

Have I messed up my proxmox 3.1 installation? Trying to install some packages makes APT wantto remove packages that seem quite essential. I did install several other packages, they installednicely without side effects.

# apt-get install netcat-openbsd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
apt-transport-https dtach iputils-arping libapt-pkg-perl libio-multiplex-perl liblzo2-2 lzop resource-agents-pve socat
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed: pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve
The following packages will be REMOVED:
proxmox-ve-2.6.32 pve-manager qemu-server
The following NEW packages will be installed: netcat-openbsd pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 33.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 69.6 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

I assume proxmox will break if I let APT remove proxmox-ve-2.6.32 pve-manager qemu-server

Hi,
why not netcat-traditional? Which is automaticly installed on an pve-host.

# dpkg -l | grep netcat
ii  netcat-traditional               1.10-40                       amd64        TCP/IP swiss army knife

Udo

 

[Tapio Lehtonen]

That is not the point. netcat-openbsd was just an example, there are other packages that do the same thing, i.e. trying to install them causes removal of those essential packages.

Seems qemu-server depends on netcat-traditional, and netcat-openbsd conflicts with that. There is the reason APT wants to remove those essential packages.

 

[dietmar]

That is not the point. netcat-openbsd was just an example

So what exactly is the point? If you install conflicting packages APT tries to resolve the conflicts.
In short, proxmox depends on netcat-traditional. That is why you run into problems if you
remove or replace it.

 

[shantanu]

Hi,

I know this is an old topic, but recently I too faced a similar problem on some of my older version 3.4 servers. The "new" arping conflicts with the the older "iputils-arping" and in turn wants to remove the "pve-manager".

*** As expected, if I accept this, the WebGUI and PVE in general stops working.

# apt-get install arping
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libnet1
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  iputils-arping pve-manager resource-agents-pve
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  arping libnet1
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/87.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 783 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

# pveversion -v
pve-manager: 3.4-13 (running version: 3.4-13/4c745357)
lvm2: 2.02.98-pve4
clvm: 2.02.98-pve4
corosync-pve: 1.4.7-1
openais-pve: 1.1.4-3
libqb0: 0.11.1-2
redhat-cluster-pve: 3.2.0-2
resource-agents-pve: 3.9.2-4
fence-agents-pve: 4.0.10-3
pve-cluster: 3.0-19
qemu-server: 3.4-8
pve-firmware: 1.1-5
libpve-common-perl: 3.0-26
libpve-access-control: 3.0-16
libpve-storage-perl: 3.0-34
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.4-3
vncterm: 1.1-8
vzctl: 4.0-1pve6
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.1-2
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.2-25
ksm-control-daemon: 1.1-1
glusterfs-client: 3.5.2-1

Could you folks recommend a safe set of commands to remove the "iputils-arping" and install "arping" ?

*** Installing "arping" on the new version 4 doesn't cause any problem.

Thanks and Regards,
Shantanu

 

[shantanu]

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[tom]

If you really need arping you should use V 4.x. I doubt that there will be a fix for this soon.