On Monday 06 January 2003 6:17 pm, Kees Bergwerf wrote:
I installed apt-get, did "apt-get update" but now..
Actually you ran upgrade, not update. Upgrade tries to upgrade every package that can be upgraded. if you have a slow connection, not a cable modem this could take a few weeks. You also don't have all the dependencies met. continued below ...
cbw:/etc/apt # apt-get -s upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done
What next?
cbw:/etc/apt # apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: autoconf automake The following packages will be REMOVED: bibletime digikam kde2-compat kde2-compat-devel kdeaddons3 kdeadmin3 kdeartwork3 kdebase3 kdebase3-SuSE kdebase3-devel kdebase3-nsplugin kdegames3 kdegraphics3 kdelibs3 kdelibs3-devel kdemultimedia3 kdenetwork3 kdepim3 kdetoys3 kdeutils3 kinternet koffice koncd kradio ktail kuickshow quanta susehelpcenter The following NEW packages will be installed: autoconf automake 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 28 removed and 532 not upgraded. Need to get 746kB of archives. After unpacking 229MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Of course I don't want to remove all those packages! Why are they removed? How can I prevent this? I don't understand what is happening.
good choice.
Install Synaptic, it's a gui for apt-get. You get it at the same place you got
apt from.
run apt-get update then go into synaptic, and the "updated' list of files that
are available will be there. I'd suggest updating what you need/want and stay
away from the upgrade feature.
As a warning, some unlucky people have removed things with apt and had a
unusable or messed up system afterwards. i use it alot, and haven't run into
many problems, but then again i don't let it remove what i'm not sure about.
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Franklin Maurer