On Saturday 10 of January 2004 16:49, Greg Madden wrote: > Apt-get will not install a package if it depends on a new > package. I can't say if this will bonk your system but it is > telling you additional packages are needed. Dselect does a more > complete job of satisfying depends, or you could do 'apt-get -s > intall' on the held back packages to see what is happenning > there.
Don't touch dselect, if you don't know what you are doing! And instead of apt-get upgrade, use apt-get (or aptitude, it's even better) dist-upgrade. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it. -- Moses Hadas
