Jerome Acks Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:43:49AM +0200, Josef Oswald wrote: >> Well it seems that by installing ximian gnome I installed a mixture of >> incompatible libs, ( just found out this evening as I wanted to >> install various *-dev libs.) >> >> Now how can I solve this situation? > > What exactly are you trying to solve? Do you want to replace > ximian-gnome with debian gnome packages so you can install the *-dev > libs?
since I have woody installed i need to get rid of ximian-gnome since it is meant to be installed in potato and not woody. > > How did you install ximian-gnome? with apt-get install task-ximian IIRC, and there where no errors. > > If you use diff to compare unzipped backups of dpkg.status files in > /var/backups/dpkg from just before and after you installed > ximian-gnome, you will get a list of what changed when you installed. > > You could use this list to figure out what packages you need to remove > and reinstalled. I used aptitude to get rid of the ximian files -- LinuxUser aka Josef Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] registered-linux-user # 134.818 at http://counter.li.org The box said Windows, NT or better, so I installed Linux :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]