Re: Updating Woody X To Backports 4.2.1-14 ?

[Matej Cepl <cepl@surfbest.net>]

On Saturday 10 of January 2004 16:49, Greg Madden wrote:
> Apt-get will not install a package if it depends on a new
> package. I can't say if this will bonk your system but it is
> telling you additional packages are needed. Dselect does a more
> complete job of satisfying depends, or you could do 'apt-get -s
> intall' on the held back packages to see what is happenning
> there.

Don't touch dselect, if you don't know what you are doing! And
instead of apt-get upgrade, use apt-get (or aptitude, it's even
better) dist-upgrade.

Matej

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