On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:43:02PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > Dear Ross! > > Did you see this: > > On Son, 27 Aug 2006, Ross Boylan wrote: > > corn:~# date; aptitude -q install texlive-base > ... > > Unpacking texlive-doc-base (from .../texlive-doc-base_2005-2_all.deb) ... > > Upgrade from experimental versions are not supported! > > Please purge all texlive packages before installation. > ...
Yes, but as I showed in the subsequent message, I'm also unable to purge the packages. Seems I can neither go forward or back. > > You should *definitely* clean up your TeX installation(s), ie: > - purge (!!!) this is important all texlive packages > - purge all unofficial packages you might have installed from > http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ updpkg/ > and *then* reinstall everything. I might have got stuff from experimental, but not (direct) from tug. Ross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

