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on Mon, 12 Apr 2004 02:02:06PM -0400, J F insinuated:
> I don't have a specific answer to your problem,
> but using aptitude seems to ease upgrade problems.
> Also, having testing, unstable, and stable all in
> /etc/apt/sources.list seems to get aptitude
> to converge on a working solution.
yeah, i do have all of them in there. i'm relatively new to aptitude,
and have never been a convert, specifically because every time i try
to install any one thing with it, it wants to upgrade the rest of my
system and install at least 50 new packages. i probably don't have it
synched with something or other -- probably related to the error i see
whenever i start it up:
Apt errors
W: Can't open Aptitude extended status file
but these problems with aptitude make me shy away from it. am i using
it wrong, or something?
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