Re: What's going on with "testing"?
On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 06:57, Richard Kimber wrote:
> On 21 May 2003 05:40:53 -0500
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > > So what should the ordinary not-terribly-expert user do, just keep
> > > doing apt-get upgrade as usual in the hope that it will eventually
> > > sort itself out?
> >
> > Or you could, when doing "apt-get -u upgrade", note which packages
> > are getting held back, and manually "apt-get -u install" them.
> >
> > Then, the reason(s) why said packages were held back would become
> > apparent.
>
> Thanks. So if I do this for a held-back package and get something like -
>
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> kde: Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be installed or
> kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable
> E: Sorry, broken packages
>
> Is the *best strategy* to do apt-get dist-upgrade?
On the rare occasions when I run into this, and since I mostly
run sarge, I try "apt-get -u -t unstable install <foo>".
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