Re: upgrading with dselect
Colin Watson wrote:
>
> "Michael Novak" <micnov@tesmail.cz> wrote:
> >i've installed potato 2.2r2 and now i would like to have new version of qt
> >library.
> >so i added new source pointing on debian ftp unstable version into
> >/etc/atp/sources.list and run dselect. after cache update dselect
> >automaticaly(!) selects about 50mb packages!
>
> Those will be packages with priority standard and up.
>
> >i supposed that after my qt selection only nessesary packages will be
> >installed/upgraded. why dselect wants to remove ie. xfonts-100dpi it
> >shouldn't depends on anything.
>
> Scroll down to it in the conflict resolution screen? There should be
> information there that tells you what each package's dependencies are
> like.
>
> Anyway, if you're pointing at unstable and trying to upgrade Qt then
> you're also going to be upgrading to XFree86 4, since the Qt there
> depends on the new X libraries. xfonts-100dpi depends on xutils and
> conflicts with the older xbase-clients package from XFree86 3, so you'll
> need to sort that out.
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
>
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You could try using console-apt ( my favorite ) to try figuring out
what's going on.
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Cheers,
Joost van der Lugt
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