Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

[cjwatson@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they
>be out of date?

'apt-get update' only updates apt's available file, not dpkg's. 'dselect
update' updates both.

However, if you're using apt, then this shouldn't matter. It may just be
that your mirror is out of sync, which is common while mirrors are
updating (and hard to avoid if the mirror doesn't have enough disk space
to keep both old and new files around). Sometimes errors cause them to
be out of sync for longer than that.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]