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Re: apt-get is holding back messages



You will probably have to do apt-get install after that. Just bare, it happened to me
yesterday, and I did apt-get install by pure chance. It worked then. It shouldn't
happen, I agree, lets hope it will be fixed. Please report if this works back to the
list

Mark Wagnon wrote:

> On 11/25/99 12:18AM, Ethan Benson wrote:
> >
> > did you try apt-get dist-upgrade? or just apt-get upgrade?
> >
>
> Right after I installed slink from cd-roms I edited my sources.list
> file and ran apt-get update/dist-upgrade. I ran apt-get update/upgrade
> last night to bring my installatio up to snuff.
>
> > apt-get upgrade never removes packages currently installed, so if a
> > new/updated package depends on something that conflicts with a
> > package currently installed, then that package will not be installed.
> >
> > if my explanation sucks try the man page on apt-get :-)
> >
>
> I took a look at it last night. The funny thing is, those packages are
> installed, but they are still the slink versions (they didn't get
> upgraded).
>
> The next poster mentions to install them via the install option, so I
> guess I'll try that.
>
> thanks
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