package installation problem

[Charles Hallenbeck]

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Hi John,

I am still enthusiastic about unstable, even after this problem. It 
turns out that modutils was pretty much replaced by another package, but 
was still installed, and when I got up enough courage to remove it and 
purge its files, everything cleared up nicely. Evidently I overlooked 
something in a changelog or somewhere that would have told me in advance 
to do that. But the advantages of keeping current with Sid far outweigh 
the occasional problems that might arise. This is the first problem I 
have had with unstable in -- let's see -- closer to a year than to six 
months now. One thing that helps is to install apt-listbugs and 
apt-listchanges, which warn you during the upgrade process about known 
problems. Of course you have to pay attention to those warnings, though. 
<smile>

Chuck

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