Re: apt-get problem
*- On 22 Sep, Jim Ruby wrote about "apt-get problem"
> today I was going to use apt-get to grab some packages, so I thaught well
> lets update incase packages were updated, so I did.
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get dselect-upgrade
>
> Now it says it wants to get 11 mb of packages and after this is unpacked
> 2260 will be freed.
>
> So why does it want to get 11 mb of stuff again, I do't have anything
> marked as I usually use apt-get install package when I want to add
> something.
>
I assume you are using slink since you didn't mention what is in your
sources.list file. Debian 2.1r3 has been propagating to the mirrors so
you probably are upgrading all the packages that have been updated from
r2 to r3. Notice that it is downloading 11mb but after all is said and
done you will be using 2260 less. You aren't installing new packages
just changing the some of the currently installed ones.
That is my take on it anyway,
--
Brian
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