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Re: apt-get and kde



On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:23:25AM -0500, John Manko wrote:
> poppy:/home/jmanko# apt-get upgrade kde
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
>  ark karm kate kcalc kcharselect kcoloredit kcron kdebase kdepasswd kdf 
>  kdict kdm kedit kfind kfract kghostview khexedit kiconedit
>  kit kjots kmail knewsticker knode knotes konqueror konsole korn kpackage 
>  kpaint kruler kscreensaver ksirc ksnapshot ksysv ktimer
>  kuser kview secpolicy
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 38  not upgraded.

That's dubious syntax anyway - 'upgrade' upgrades everything, *not*
single packages, and doesn't take arguments. However, it won't cope well
with changing dependencies, by design. Read the apt-get man page and try
'apt-get dist-upgrade' instead.

Cheers,

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



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