On Thursday 29 August 2002 10:32, Mark Bigler wrote: > ... occasionally you might want to do: > > � apt-get -du dist-upgrade > > and see it there are any new packages that are being held back due to > conflicts with packages that are "less important" than the new ones.
I should have warned that when you do a dist-upgrade, you are giving apt-get permission to REMOVE packages that conflict with "more" important packages. Never continue with a dist-upgrade until you have verified that nothing you rely on will be removed.
