Hi John,
Thanks for getting back to me.
This is the result:
r:~# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
systemd
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
After this operation, 12.2 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
If I say Yes,
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 96191 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing systemd (215-17+deb8u12) ...
systemd is the active init system, please switch to another before removing
systemd.
dpkg: error processing package systemd (--remove):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Failed to stop lib-init-rw.mount: Unit lib-init-rw.mount not loaded.
addgroup: The group `systemd-journal' already exists as a system group.
Exiting.
Errors were encountered while processing:
systemd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Which is understandable I guess but I've not found how to fix.
Cheers,
Richard.
On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 at 14:10, John Winters <john@???> wrote:
> On 29/04/2019 12:53, Richard Glynos wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I would be very grateful if any Debian expert out there could offer me
> > some advice.
> >
> > Somehow, probably editing my sources.list(s) in response to the recent
> > jessie updates removal, I have managed to break the apt update/upgrade
> > process:
> >
> > :~# apt-get upgrade
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > systemd : Depends: udev (>= 208-8) but it is not installed
> > Recommends: libpam-systemd but it is not installed
> > E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
> >
> > After searching I've tried various suggested fixes such as
> >
> > apt-get -f install
>
> That first one is the most likely one to clean things up.
>
> What is the result when you run "apt-get -f install"?
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
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