On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Scott J. Geertgens wrote: > > While upgrading, a number of packages (about 10 of the over 100) > > failed to install. The result of this was that after the first
> When I first installed Debian, this really spooked me as well. I > managed to watch the messages as they flew by, and was able to note that > all of the packages that failed depended on perl being installed. The way > the files were selected though, perl is one of the later things to be > installed, so everything installed before it that depends on it will fail. > How's that for a sentence? Anyway, I found that by simply doing a 'dpkg -i > perl....' and then a 'dpkg -i dpkg...', everything worked once again and > all other failed packages could then be installed and set up by dselect. > My suggestion to the debian team would be to add a feature to dselect > that would flag certain packages as 'on hold', install as much as > possible, then go back and try to install the failed packages again. The > dependencies are all correct, but order of installing makes a difference > as well. I vaguely assumed that "pre-depends" was a mechanism to handle this situation. Is that not so? If it is, then are all those packages missing the pre-depends flag? ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
