package installation problem

Georgina Joyce gena at genaj.plus.com
Wed Apr 19 06:20:45 EDT 2006


Hi 

Glad it's sorted out now.  I did wonder because I'm using unstable but never encountered your problem.  I wondered if you run apt-get upgrade only or did you run apt-get dist-upgrade every now and again?


On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 06:43:08PM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
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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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