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Re: Apt-get install removes?



On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:01:08PM +0200, Iiro A K Jantunen wrote:
> I tried to install (upgrade) perl on my Debian Potato. What happened,
> was shocking to me.

Looks like you tried to upgrade potato's perl to the perl from testing.
'apt-get install' won't make good decisions if you try that, as you have
to upgrade other parts of your system to match. Use 'apt-get
dist-upgrade' or dselect instead.

> What was the problem? Why did install start such removing mayhem?

Conflicts.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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