Re: serious apt error after aptitude catastrophe

2004-04-22 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:03:40AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > tried switching to aptitude and, while I was't looking, aptitude > > started to uninstall a whole slew of fundamental packages from my > > computer! > > You did that. Aptitude warned you

Re: serious apt error after aptitude catastrophe

2004-04-22 Thread Paul Johnson
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > tried switching to aptitude and, while I was't looking, aptitude > started to uninstall a whole slew of fundamental packages from my > computer! You did that. Aptitude warned you about this after the first time you hit g. You told aptitude that it's idea

Re: serious apt error after aptitude catastrophe

2004-04-21 Thread dircha
Matt Price wrote: gaah, forgot to add: downgrading libc6 leads to terrible system-breaking conflicts. tried switching to aptitude and, while I was't looking, aptitude started to uninstall a whole slew of fundamental packages from my computer! now I have to reinstall them, but the Sid glibc backag

Re: serious apt error after aptitude catastrophe

2004-04-21 Thread Matt Price
gaah, forgot to add: downgrading libc6 leads to terrible system-breaking conflicts. m On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:07:44AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > hello, > > tried switching to aptitude and, while I was't looking, aptitude > started to uninstall a whole slew of fundamental packages from my >

serious apt error after aptitude catastrophe

2004-04-21 Thread Matt Price
hello, tried switching to aptitude and, while I was't looking, aptitude started to uninstall a whole slew of fundamental packages from my computer! now I have to reinstall them, but the Sid glibc backage seems to have aserious conflict with sysinit: -- Note, selecting libc6 instead