Re: Problem with apt-get removing a package

2001-07-24 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 04:32:47PM +0100, Richard Gaywood wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:42:56AM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: > > I'd also recommend getting rid of Ximain and installing Gnome from > > the Debian .debs. It really does eliminate a lot of headaches. > > Know of any rough instru

Re: Problem with apt-get removing a package

2001-07-23 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
Thank you! This worked perfectly. I'm now back to a clean installation of CUPS. Regards, Randy On 23 Jul 2001 10:42:56 -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: > "Randolph S. Kahle" wrote: > > > > I may have messed up my package database... > > ximian may have messed it up too. I find that it's a good ide

Re: Problem with apt-get removing a package

2001-07-23 Thread Andrew Dixon
"Randolph S. Kahle" wrote: > > I may have messed up my package database... ximian may have messed it up too. I find that it's a good idea to stay away from ximian and use the gnome stuff from the Debian archives. Ximian writes great stuff but they don't do a very good job packaging it so it cre

Re: Problem with apt-get removing a package

2001-07-23 Thread Richard Gaywood
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:42:56AM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: > I'd also recommend getting rid of Ximain and installing Gnome from > the Debian .debs. It really does eliminate a lot of headaches. Know of any rough instructions on how to do this? Is it just a matter of taking Ximian out of sourc

Problem with apt-get removing a package

2001-07-23 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I may have messed up my package database... I installed CUPS (1.0.4-9) via Ximian RedCarpet. That went fine. Then I realized that I needed a new version. I downloaded release 1.1.9 from the http://www.cups.org site (the Linux 2.2 deb file) and did an install. That did not go fine - there were a