Troubles with OPAM

[Xavier Van de Woestyne]

Hi, i'm using OPAM since 2 years.
I recently changed my distribution (now I am on Debian and XFCE).
Opam installs easily.
But on each update/upgrade try to reinstall every package. (includes
base-threads, base-unix). And when I'm trying to install, for example,
merlin, after an Eliom installation, Opam try to reinstall ocamlfind 1.5.3
but it could'nt.
Do you have any idea? (I have already try to rm -rf .opam and aptitude
purge opam to reinstall but the troubles stay).

Thanks a lot.

Xavier.

[Roberto Di Cosmo]

Dear Xavier,
I would suggest you open a ticket on

https://github.com/ocaml/opam

providing detailed informations on a run that you consider is going
wrong (including opam version, the command line used, the CUDF dump
obtained with --cudf etc.)

As a quick suggestion, try anyhow just a simple
apt-get install aspucd
and see if anything changes.

--
Roberto

Post by Xavier Van de Woestyne
Hi, i'm using OPAM since 2 years.
I recently changed my distribution (now I am on Debian and XFCE).
Opam installs easily.
But on each update/upgrade try to reinstall every package. (includes
base-threads, base-unix). And when I'm trying to install, for example, merlin,
after an Eliom installation, Opam try to reinstall ocamlfind 1.5.3 but it
could'nt.
Do you have any idea? (I have already try to rm -rf .opam and aptitude purge
opam to reinstall but the troubles stay).
Thanks a lot.
Xavier.
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Xavier Van de Woestyne

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Post by Xavier Van de Woestyne
Hi, i'm using OPAM since 2 years.
I recently changed my distribution (now I am on Debian and XFCE).
Opam installs easily.
But on each update/upgrade try to reinstall every package. (includes base-threads, base-unix). And when I'm trying to install, for example, merlin, after an Eliom installation, Opam try to reinstall ocamlfind 1.5.3 but it could'nt.
Do you have any idea? (I have already try to rm -rf .opam and aptitude purge opam to reinstall but the troubles stay).

I hit this bug too, some problem with newer dose used by Debian: https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/1683

The workaround for now is to install the beta packages which work with the newer dose:
http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:ocaml&package=opam

Hopefully once opam 1.2.0 is out of beta the official Debian package can be updated too.

Best regards,
--Edwin