Update Trashed My Install

[Mr.Slip]

Hi,

 

I've been using btsync for months, with no problems.  This is an awesome program, and I thank the developers very much for making my life easier.

 

My main system is a laptop, 64 bit Intel, running Linux Mint 64 bit KDE,

Linux uber 3.11.0-12-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 9 16:20:46 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 

I've had btsync installed via the PPA at tuxpoldo/btsync

 

Everything has been working fine, without a hitch.  This program makes me smile all the time :-)

 

Today I had an upgrade notice in my upgrade manager, for btsync-common.  I clicked "ok", and the regular update procedure ensued.

 

As usual for updates of btsync, the icon on my panel disappeared.  After an update, btsync usually needs to be restarted, which I did from the console.  My usual command to do this is:

 

btsync start

or

btsync restart

 

This time it did not run, and did not return any messages to the console.  Closer examination revealed that btsync-user was no longer installed.  When I tried to install it with apt-get, I got the message:

 

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 btsync-user : Depends: btsync-common but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

 

I tried "apt-get -f update" and got the same result.  I uninstalled all btsync packages and tried to re-install, but got this message:

 

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 btsync-common : Breaks: btsync-user (<= 1.15.0-1) but 1.15.0-1 is to be installed
 btsync-gui-gtk : Breaks: btsync-user but 1.15.0-1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

 

It seems the update is broken.  If I can provide any further information to help with resolution, please let me know.

 

If you think the problem might be on my end (although I doubt this is the case), I will VERY much appreciate any tips to help me get this going again.  Otherwise, I'll just wait for the next update.

 

Thanks.

 

[Issachar]

I'm having the same issue, although mine is not a reinstall, it's a fresh install on a fresh install of KUbuntu 14.04 LTS.  (I used the same install procedure as I did on my XUbuntu and Ubuntu installations earlier without any problems.

Edited May 28, 2014 by Issachar

[GreatMarko]

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 btsync-common : Breaks: btsync-user (<= 1.15.0-1) but 1.15.0-1 is to be installed

 btsync-gui-gtk : Breaks: btsync-user but 1.15.0-1 is to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

 

It seems the update is broken.  If I can provide any further information to help with resolution, please let me know.

 

Please see this post and this post.

[Mr.Slip]

 

Please see this post and this post.

Thanks, GreatMarko, but I did not force the installation.  Maybe that's the problem-- it should have been held back, but this time it wasn't?

[Issachar]

Thanks GreatMarko.

 

It's beta software, so I tend to assume these kinds of glitches will happen.  I'll wait for a fix which hopefully won't take too long.

 

That said, I'm not a Linux guru by far and I'm gradually migrating from the Windows world and I've got a question about how this works in Linux, (specifically KUbuntu 14.04), if someone will endulge a question that probably has more to do with the operating system than with BTSync.

 

I use BTSync for work and personal.  I'd prefer to test new versions on my personal stuff.  But if I added the tuxpoldo/btsync repository and installed BTSync from there, does this mean every update will be automatically applied when the OS tells me that updates are available?

 

 

Sorry, I realize that it's a faux pas to stray from the topic, but I hope you'll endulge me.  Windows obviously doesn't have anything like that, but it's the kind of value added feature that I could see being part of Linux.  It could just have some unintended consequences for me since I don't really know what I'm doing.

[tuxpoldo]

Hi Folks!

 

Unfortunately some GUI package manager frontends do a dist-upgrade without asking. But there are good news: Mark Johnson has fixed the problem and I will release a new package in the next few hours.

 

Cheers!

And here it is:
 

btsync-user (1.16.0-1) unstable; urgency=low  * New upstream release 0.16 on btsyncindicator    - Made compatible with new Web UI of BitTorrent Sync      version 1.3.105 (Closes #btsyncindicator/50) -- Leo Moll <leo.moll@yeasoft.com>  Mon, 02 Jun 2014 23:59:52 +0100