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Re: aptitude wants to install apache



On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 21:53:20 +1000, Robert S wrote:
> > It looks like apache and apache-common are not installed automatically.
> > Maybe aptitude remembers a previous request you made (even if it was by
> > accident). Try to run "aptitude keep-all" and check again with the above
> > command.
> >
> 
> I could not find this command.

Uh-oh, I forgot to check if it already exists for Sarge's version of
aptitude. I think the release notes recommend to upgrade aptitude before
upgrading the rest of your system since the new version of aptitude has
been improved a lot.

> > If you want to upgrade to Etch then you will have to do "dist-upgrade"
> > eventually. Read the release notes and follow all the steps, otherwise
> > there may be trouble. Also note that there is a section dealing
> > specifically with apache (section 5.6).
> >
> > I repeat: DO NOT just change sources.list and run "aptitude
> > dist-upgrade" without reading the release notes.
> 
> I've decided (for better or worse) to go ahead with the "dist-upgrade" and 
> am following the instructions VERY closely.  It looks as if I'm going to end 
> up with apache and apache2.  Not a very good situation, but I'll try to 
> remove apache afterwards.  There might be another posting to this group on 
> how to remove this properly without a dist-upgrade trying to install it in 
> the future. 

It will probably work out OK; if it does not then you know where to find
us.

Good luck.

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