On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Johann Spies wrote:
> Please excuse me if this has been answered before. > > I received my Debian 1.3.1 CD, borrowed a cdrom-drive and installed 1.3.1. > Dselect refuses to remove "modules" and "base" and as a result shows > "modutils 2.1.35-5" as broken and "base 1.1.0-13" as obsolete. > > How can I solve this problem? Whatever you do, DO NOT PURGE BASE!! Then you will have a real problem. Even if dselect says it is obsolete, it still owns vital parts of your system (try "dpkg -L base" and see for yourself.) So, DO NOT PURGE BASE!! You could: - ignore what dselect indicates. - delve into the dpkg database and remove all references to base. IIRC this was described lately. - wait for the maintainer of the package to issue a final base.deb, consisting of merely install scripts that will perform the abovementioned cleaning. What does dpkg print when it tries to upgrade modutils? Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .