"Stan Brown" wrote: >I just really messed up! > >I have a "stable" machine, and i had installed all the PostgreSQL related pa >ckages >from the stable archive, and all was well. > >Then I downloaded all the PostgreSQL 7.1 RC1 packages from >http://people.debian.org/~elphick/postgresql/, put them in a directory all t >o >themselves, did a cd to this directory, and di "dpkg -i *". > >This did not go well! I got all sorts of errors, and now when I go into dsel >ct, I >find I'm in dependency H**L. > >First, whay did I do wrong?
You got the packages built for unstable; if you look more closely in that URL you will also find packages for potato. >Second, how can I recover from this mess? Replace those packages with potato ones. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C ======================================== "Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the Lord." Psalm 31:24