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Re: apt-get upgrade behaviour versus apt-get install package with respect to netscape,



On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 11:08:34AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote:
> 
> New versions of  currently
>               installed  packages that cannot be upgraded without
>               changing the install status of another package will
>               be left at their current version. An update must be
>               performed first so that apt-get knows that new ver­
>               sions of packages are available.

    I'm not sure how to read that. During an upgrade, you almost always have
to change the install status of another package, so how does that work?

    Mike

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