Re: KDE Update
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:14:26 +0000
Richard Ibbotson <richard@sheflug.co.uk> wrote:
RI> Georg and Anders
RI>
RI> > > I'm wondering whether it's a good time to update my own machine
RI> > > to KDE 3.3.1 ? Other one is that I don't know what to tell
RI> > > apt-get to do to update to 3.3.1. Perhaps someone can help me
RI> > > with that ?
RI> >
RI> > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
RI>
RI>
RI> Yes. Been doing that some weeks :) What I get is this every time
RI> for the past two weeks ...
RI>
RI> # apt-get upgrade
RI> Reading Package Lists... Done
RI> Building Dependency Tree... Done
RI> The following packages have been kept back:
RI> amor ark artsbuilder atlantik atlantikdesigner bug-buddy capplets
RI> capplets-data cupsys dcoprss digikam
RI> ecasound2.2 eog epiphany-browser evolution eyesapplet
RI> fifteenapplet
RI> file-roller fireflier-client-kde
RI> foomatic-gui gconf-editor gdm gedit gedit-common ggz-kde-games
RI> gnome
RI> gnome-about gnome-applets
RI>
RI>
RI> and about another 120 m/m of it in Konsole. So, KDE is refusing to
RI> update when I run upgrade. Packages have been kept back. Looks
RI> like it's just me and not someone else ?
Try dist-upgrade instead of upgrade -- that does a far better job of
finding extra packages that need to be installed. Basically if a
completely new package is needed, upgrade holds the package that
requires it, dist-upgrade offers to install the new package.
James
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