Re: Borked update

2004-04-01 Thread Katipo
Martin J. Hillyer wrote: That turned out to be a great hint! I used dselect to install nautilus, it installed, upgraded nautilus-media and all the other packages that were pending and left me with a package system that has no broken installs (dpkg -C now comes up with nothing). Both debconf

Borked update

2004-03-30 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
After a small fling with Gnome, and trying to remove it, I'm having trouble getting my system updated. I've been flailing around a fair bit, so a reinstall may be my only option at this point. But perhaps someone here could show me a way to avoid that. I was running unstable, and got this

Re: Borked update

2004-03-30 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 01:02:32PM -0800, Martin J. Hillyer wrote: After a small fling with Gnome, and trying to remove it, I'm having trouble getting my system updated. I've been flailing around a fair bit, so a reinstall may be my only option at this point. But perhaps someone here could

Re: Borked update

2004-03-30 Thread Katipo
Martin J. Hillyer wrote: After a small fling with Gnome, and trying to remove it, I'm having trouble getting my system updated. I've been flailing around a fair bit, so a reinstall may be my only option at this point. But perhaps someone here could show me a way to avoid that. I was running

Re: Borked update

2004-03-30 Thread Debian User
You could try re-installing gnome then remove gnome-session and gnome-control-center, that should pretty much put a stake through it's bloated little green heart, even if it doesn't remove all of the body parts. As far as your comment about downgrading to testing...can you do that? I mean, I

Re: Borked update

2004-03-30 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:12:36PM +0800, Katipo wrote: Martin J. Hillyer wrote: After a small fling with Gnome, and trying to remove it, I'm having trouble getting my system updated. I've been flailing around a fair bit, so a reinstall may be my only option at this point. But perhaps