On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:24:12 +0100 Richard Bown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi > I've now upgraded Claws to 3.7.10 and the crashing when filtering has > ceased. Even when filtering 4 years of mail. > I found a problem with trying to upgrade with synaptic as it puts > gnome as a dependency. Also perl ! > to around this I downloaded the tarball and built and installed, > getting the required lib as needed from running configure. > However when I ran the thing it would use SSL.:( > I un-installed both the built and the old version that was already > installed. I was then able to install from testing and as the required > libs were already in there was nothing to be deleted as a dependency. > There really needs to be a trap put in to stop a software install that > will break the system. > This seems to a be a problem in ALL the distros I've used where there > is a graphic package tool, redhat, Suse, Mandriva,fedora have the same > issue. There is a graphic frontend, besides ncurses, for aptitude now, but I don't have it installed. the 'aptitude safe-upgrade' command takes care of business, along with apt-listbugs. Glad everything has worked out O.K. Regards, Weaver. -- "In a world without walls and fences, what need have we for Windows or Gates?" -Anon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
