Re: help! apt upgrade breaks everything

1998-11-01 Thread timothy
Oh dear But it gives me the same errors when I try to downgrade. :(. So what should I do, just sit wait and pray that I don't have a long enough power failure to drain my UPS and kill my current X session? (I presume It will be broken if i try to restart X). thanx, timothy >With 3.3.2.3a-

Re: help! apt upgrade breaks everything

1998-11-01 Thread Randy Edwards
> PS: Why is xbase_3.3.2.3a-6 100K and my old xbase_3.3.2.3a-1 2.1MB? With 3.3.2.3a-6 the slink X package underwent a major redesign. It still has a lot of problems (I've still got one system which has WindowMaker broken ). IMHO, you might want to consider putting the various X packages o

help! apt upgrade breaks everything

1998-11-01 Thread timothy
Hi, I left my machine doing apt-get upgrade, and now I have tonnes of pages of errors like - dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: trying to overwrite `/usr/man/man8', which is also in package passwd dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: trying to ove