Bill Webster <bwebster@burgoyne.com> writes: > On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 02:42, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:53:02AM -0700, Bill Webster wrote: >> > I am having a problem and I am wondering if someone out there is having >> > the same problem or can explain what is going on. >> > >> > My laptop was running KDE3 from unstable. >> >> You couldn't be, since KDE2.2 is still in unstable, though broken, >> right now. > > I was confused by the fact that the packages say 'Version: 4:...'. In > fact why do they? Err, ignore the number before the ':'. It's the "epoch", which is not related to the upstream version. If you're curious about the version schemes Debian uses, read about it in Debian Policy: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-versions.html >> > About 3 days ago I did an upgrade that upgraded it to what appears >> > to be a partial upgrade to version 4. >> >> This is why you need to review what a dist-upgrade is going to do. If >> you see a large number of packages being removed, do not upgrade. You >> can either try to downgrade to testing or wait it out until KDE3 is >> fully merged in with sid. Your KDE is now a mix of 3.1 and 2.2, with >> a *lot* of missing packages. Good luck. > > I always try and watch out for things like this. In fact I rarely do > dist-upgrades but I do perform upgrades regularly. But some how I must > of done a dist-upgrade and did not pay attention. :-) I think you'd be much better off forgoing apt-get and using an interactive package tool instead such as aptitude. Proper use of such a tool will make it much easier to keep your package system in stable state. -- On a scale of 1 to 10? It sucked.
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