Re: APT strangeness

1999-10-09 Thread peter karlsson
> Use 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' to have apt get along with your dselect > selections. I don't use dselect any longer... I use apt-get + console-apt -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ When answering to mailing list or news posting, please do not Cc me personally. Thanks.

Re: APT strangeness

1999-10-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 12:11:57PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > How is it that, sometimes, during a 'apt-get dist-upgrade', apt wants to > remove packages that I have selected to install, and *not* said that I want > to remove? Use 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' to have apt get along with your dsel

Re: APT strangeness

1999-10-09 Thread Todd Suess
Peter, I had this same thing happen to me, so I dug into it a bit and this is what I found. Lynx-ssl depends on the slang1 library being below versin 1.3.1 I believe, and since dist-upgrade trys to intelligently handle dependancies, etc, since you installed a version of slang1 that was higher tha

APT strangeness

1999-10-09 Thread peter karlsson
How is it that, sometimes, during a 'apt-get dist-upgrade', apt wants to remove packages that I have selected to install, and *not* said that I want to remove? # apt-get -s dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages will be REMOVED: ae gimp lynx-ssl