Am Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2003 10:45 schrieb Paul Cupis: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 08:37, Thomas Watz wrote: >> yesterday I did a upgrade from 3.0.5a to 3.1 on my sarge system (some >> packages are from sid). It works mostly, but to do this is a mess. >> Perhaps I am doing something wrong. I had to specify every program with >> version number, e.g. >> >> apt-get install kate=4:3.1* kedit=4:3.1* ...... >> >> This was a lot of work and has taken the whole evening. I do not know, >> why it is not possible to use the metapackages, e.g. >> >> apt-get install kdeutils >> >> This gives a lot of dependency problems and results in the above >> mentioned behaviour. >> >> Am I doing something wrong? Has anybody a hint what could have gone >> wrong? sources.list wrong? I don't know. > > For some reason, apt is not seeing the 3.1 packages as newer/higher > priority than your existing packages - you can diagnose this using > apt-cache policy: > > apt-cache policy kdeutils > > This will tell you what version you have installed, what versions are > available (and their prioirity) and whether or not apt thinks the package > should be upgraded. > > A priority of 500 is the default given to all sources unless overridden in > /etc/apt/preferences (apt_preferences(5)). A priority of 100 is given to > installed packages. > > You should try (or have tried) this command for a few of the packages to > see why apt didn't want to upgrade, and create/edit /etc/apt/preferences > to suit. > > Regards, > > Paul Cupis
Hello Paul, thank you for your explanitions here. This sounds very logical and will have a look at this. I just played around in /etc/apt/preferences and will see with the next packages. Thank you for your hint. Thomas
