Re: [ILUG] apt questions

From: Wesley Darlington (wesley at domain yelsew.com)
Date: Wed 03 Oct 2001 - 15:03:33 IST


On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:50:48PM +0100, Liam Bedford wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 09:41:35AM -0400, Wesley Darlington came forth with:
> > 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.
> nope.. from the man page:
> Packages currently installed with new versions available are retrieved and
> upgraded; under no circum­ stances are currently installed packages
> removed, or packages not already installed retrieved and installed. New
> versions of currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded without
> changing the install status of another package will be left at their
> current version.

Yes. For an "upgrade". I was talking about "install". Although I could
have made this clearer...

Wesley.



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