i removed xmh, because i say it was conflicintg, duting the install' also remved xlibs which took out a whole bunch of packages
Do you know where at-getkeeps a log of all its errors or messages? brw, thanks for your help. On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, John Galt wrote: > > xlibs conflicts with the version you have ATM (at least it did for me last > week when I apparently dealt with the problem). dist-upgrade should've > solved it (that WAS the whole point of dist-upgrade at one > time). If you know the culprit, just plain install it. My usual process > for unstable upgrading (the conflict you're having here happens rather > often...) > > 1) apt-get upgrade > > 2) apt-get dist-upgrade > > 3)CAUTIOUSLY apt-get install any packages held back. This may require > that some packages that require the old version and haven't been upgraded > in and of themselves: what can happen is that package foo can depend on > package bar only equal to version baz: you install bar of version baz+1 > and package foo's dependency fails. Apt resolves dependencies from bar's > perspective and clears out anything that now has failed > dependencies. Package foo gets uninstalled. This is a sane way to do > things, unless you think that foo is more important to your work than bar. > > 4) if 3) fails because you don't want to uninstall a given package: wait a > week or two and try the setup again--the conflict may have resolved > itself. Brand new packages take a little longer to propagate than updated > versions, so if the package depends on a new package, it's very likely > that the dependency will remain unmet until the new package > propagates. The maintainer of the package foo might've gotten his package > to work with bar version baz+1 in the meanwhile. Either way, the problem > solves itself. > > 5) if 4) fails, make a value judgement: which is more important--foo or > bar or an ever increasing number of held packages while you wait out the > conflict resolution? Run with it. > > > > On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, dude wrote: > > > > > > > still Didnt help install xlibs which seems to be the root of the problem > > > > g > > > > > > > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, John Galt wrote: > > > > > > > > do a dist-upgrade and that should bring down the number of "not > > > installed"... > > > > > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, dude wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello all. > > > > > > > > I've Just > > > > Upgraded today and have noted that exactly 41 packages have not been > > > > fully > > > > installed or removed > > > > > > > > The only error is get is: > > > > > > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-5_386.deb > > > > > > > > thanks for the help > > > > please CC me a copy of your help directly > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > There is an old saying that if a million monkeys typed on a million > > > keyboards for a million years, eventually all the works of Shakespeare > > > would be produced. Now, thanks to Usenet, we know this is not true. > > > > > > Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who! > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Sacred cows make the best burgers > > Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!!! > >
