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[ILUG] apt questions

[ILUG] apt questions

Wesley Darlington wesley at yelsew.com
Wed Oct 3 14:41:47 IST 2001


On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:29:26PM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
> ah.. with apt-get install i see it's cause it's cause there the new 
> package is dependent on packages i dont have installed.

Odd. The dependencies should resolve Just Fine.

> i presume the way to get it to install new packages to resolve 
> dependencies as necc'ry is 'dist-upgrade'?

That's a bit drastic.

> File does not exist: /var/kits/apt/alphyra/base/release.test
> 
> in the log files of the HTTP server that acts as my apt source. what 
> aer they, and how do i generate them?

Did you do an "apt-get update" first?

Wesley.




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