On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 05:53:04PM -0400, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: > If the package doesn't say "Helix", purge it. You don't > need any non-helix gnome packages to have a working gnome > distribution. > > > > apt-get upgrade broke my Gnome this weekend. Looking in my apt/archives, I > > see that I have a gnome-bin (and maybe some other Gnome-related packages) > > that is not from Helix and I suspect that is the source of my problem. So, > > does anybody know a way to steer apt preferentially. That is, how can I > > ensure that .debs from debian/woody/main don't replace the ones from Helix > > that are presumably "integrated" to work together?
The problem is with packages such as gnome-bin_1.2.4-helix4_i386.deb, which is from helixcode and gnome-bin_1.2.5-1_i386.deb, which is from Debian woody. On Sunday, the latter replaced the former, which seems reasonable to apt-get because it has a higher version number, but it (or some other conflicting gnome package) caused gmc to cease working. Shortly after I posted my original question, Helix updated that particular package to 1.2.5-helix1, which apt-get nicely installed for me. So maybe the only answer to my question is "be patient, Helix will normally have a higher version than Debian woody for any given gnome package". As an aside, it seems that today's Helix Gnome for Debian is still a little broken, though. I can't choose a window manager with Gnome Control Panel, because wm-properties-capplet segfaults.
