On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 11:13:03AM +0100, Martin Kuball wrote: > I'v just upgraded my woody to testing. Everything went well and the system is > still running ;). Soon after I found out that instead of apt-get upgrade I > should have used apt-get dist-upgrade. I repeated the step and really he > wants to do a lot more work. Among a lot of new packages he wants to remove > almost all of the kde pckages. Now this is a bit strange because there does > not seem to be a replacement in the list of the new packages he wants to > install. So what's going on here?
KDE isn't quite sorted in testing yet. If you use a real package management frontend like dselect or aptitude instead of apt-get you may be able to persuade parts of it to stay. > Another question: I'm seeing the following line a lot when using apt-get: > > the following n packages have been ketp back > > what does this meen? Just that he can't find a newer version for them? No, exactly not that; there's a newer version but it can't be installed because of dependency problems. See above about using a real package management frontend, which may let you get more detail on why they're being held back. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
