First, thanks to everyone who helped me get started. I'm using the /etc/apt/preferences file and I'm now able to keep my woody installation without having dselect constantly want to uninstall my KDE2.2 and Koffice.
However, I'm still having troubles with dselect. Even though I used apt-get to install the sid elements that I wanted, apparently there are some conflicts that apt-get didn't see. apt-get upgrade, apt-get -f install, apt-get check and dpkg -C all come up fine. No problems found. But dselect still wants to uninstall a lot of my kde development tools, aparently claiming there is a conflict. Now, I have found (and solved) several of the conflicts that dselect has pointed out--installing a growing portion of Sid. But after spending several hours, It is still giving me trouble. So, I have two questions. 1: Why does dselect detect problems that the other tools ignore? Can I safely ignore these problems myself (I can't find any more conflicts--but dselect insists on changing my selections. Should I just use Q to override?) 2: Is this worth my time. I'd like to stick with woody, becuse it has (at least partially) been tested. But it is sure tempting to just upgrade everyting to Sid. I'm worried that, even if I do fix the current conflicts. future apt-get upgrades will cause other things to break. Should I stick to only one (woody or sid) or is it possible to mix and match? As an unrelated third question, what's the best way to upgrade the kernel? I would like to move to a 2.4 kernel if possible. I thought the dist-upgrade to woody would take care of that, but it looks like I've still got 2.2. Thanks, -Rich- __________________________________________________ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/
