Re: apt-get problem workaround... is this a bug?

["Paul D. Smith" <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com>]

%% Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net> writes:

  >> Unfortunately, it still hasn't migrated into testing, and when I tried
  >> to grab it from unstable it wanted to pull too many other unstable
  >> packages for me to be comfortable with.

  bn> What often works for me in a situation like that is to use:

  bn> apt-get build-dep apt
  bn> apt-get -b source apt

  bn> and install the resulting package with dpkg -i.  This will
  bn> probably install some -dev packages you might not otherwise need,
  bn> however, but you can often avoid massive upgrading.

I thought of that.  But then I took a closer look at the packages, and I
apt-get remove'd the gnome-apt package (I don't much like it anyway--it
_could_ be so great, but... it's not--yet, maybe) and after that the
list of packages it wanted to update was much more reasonable, so I went
ahead and did it.

Thanks...

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