answered my own issue (was Re: Where is Netscape? Problem with Sawmill)

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:05:34PM -0500, dman wrote:

| any case, sawmill is also outdated and I recommend getting sawfish
| (the new name, legal issues) from woody.  I have version 0.38
| installed right now (I think potato's sawmill is back at 0.20 or
| something) and I see that 1.0.1 is available.  (This is weird, neither
| apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade want to upgrade sawfish, but
| apt-get install will)

I figured this out : 'apt-cache policy sawfish' told me that I have
version 0.38-6 installed, but 'dpkg -l sawfish' says "rc" -- I want it
removed but config is still on my system.  If I try and install
sawfish, apt will remove sawfish-gnome.  sawfish-gnome is at version
1.0.1, as it should be.

IOW, the problem was (mostly) PEBCAK (though 'apt-cache policy' could
use some improvement).

-D

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