Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?
Matthew Dalton wrote:
>The only packages that gave me any grief were the KDE ones, as expected.
>The newer packages had the files rearranged between the different
>packages, so apt-get was unable to install packages because they were
>attempting to overwrite files from other installed packages. I think I
>ended up using 'dpkg --force-overwrite' a few times to get them
>installed.
Please make sure that bugs have been reported against the appropriate
packages about this ... when files move from one package to another, the
second package should use Replaces: to handle it smoothly.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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