Re: Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Brad
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 09:06:06PM -0500, Henry White wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:55:28PM +, Lane Lester wrote: > > > > On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > Have you tried 'apt-get -f install', I've had similar problems also and > > > apt-get -f install solves most... >

Re: Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Henry White
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:55:28PM +, Lane Lester wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > Have you tried 'apt-get -f install', I've had similar problems also and > > apt-get -f install solves most... > > Is that safe? I seem to recall doing that once some time ago, and

Re: Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Lane Lester
Ron Rademaker said: > I've done it a few times and never had any real trouble, once it did > delete a few packages I actually wanted to keep, but afterwards I just > reinstalled them and all was fine. I did it, and now I'm in trouble. One of the packages it removed was kde-corel. That's no big los

Re: Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Ron Rademaker
I've done it a few times and never had any real trouble, once it did delete a few packages I actually wanted to keep, but afterwards I just reinstalled them and all was fine. Ron On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Lane Lester wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > Have you tried 'apt-get -f

Re: Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Lane Lester
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Have you tried 'apt-get -f install', I've had similar problems also and > apt-get -f install solves most... Is that safe? I seem to recall doing that once some time ago, and it mangled my system. It would still run, but I recall an awful lot of stuff go

Re: Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Ron Rademaker
Have you tried 'apt-get -f install', I've had similar problems also and apt-get -f install solves most... Ron On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Lane Lester wrote: > > According to the apt-get man page: > install > install is followed by one or more packages desired > for installation. Each pack

Apt-get Confusion

2000-02-20 Thread Lane Lester
According to the apt-get man page: install install is followed by one or more packages desired for installation. Each package is a package name, not a fully qualified filename (for instance, in a Debian GNU/Linux system, ldso would be the argument provided, not ld