A. F. Cano wrote:
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 04:53:32PM +0000, John Halton wrote:[...]I have resisted using apg-get as I know the aptitude databases would then be out of sync. [...]
You could try the magic bullet "aptitude keep-all" to restore sane behaviour after using apt-get. See http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Aptitude_-_using_together_with_Synaptic_and_Apt-get
-- Chris.