Colin Walters wrote: > Bo Lorentsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hmm, I thought that this tasksel just scanned the apt cache for task > > packages, and listet these. (I'm quite new to this Debian thing) > > Well, it also installs them.
Ohh, sorry ofcause, as does "apt-get install xyz-task" :-) > > When did the gnome part of tasksel enter the Woody dist. ? > > I'm using sid, but it looks like the same version of GNOME is in > woody, so "desktop environment" in tasksel should give you the GNOME > stuff. And KDE, or just Gnome ? > The problem is that the Ximian packages probably have a higher version > number than the Debian GNOME packages, and tasksel (really apt) won't > "downgrade" to the Debian packages. So you have to remove the all > Ximian packages, then install the Debian packages. The most packages har exactly the same, but they don't depend on the same things. > Don't --force-depends; you'll have a hard time getting dpkg back on > nice speaking terms with you. I'd try finding the crucial libraries > that the Ximian packages Depend on (say libgnome32), and "apt-get > remove" those. Then you should only have a few remaining packages to > clean up that didn't Depend on libgnome32. Of course, you will be > without GNOME during the removal and upgrade.. Well, what I did was to remove the conflicting package one by one, and the replace it at ones with the woody equivalent, that got the same version number. But I know this is a dangerous way of acting :-) But your proposal seem more sane, but done is done :-) /BL
