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Re: [SLE] Apt and dependencies on older versions
  • From: Ain Vagula <ain@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 01:18:00 +0200
  • Message-id: <200401060118.00461.ain@xxxxxxxxx>
Trey Sizemore:
> I have a fresh install of 9.0. I have a number of mirrors in my
> sources.list (gnome2, usr-local-bin, etc.). When I go to do an apt-get
> dist-upgrade it lets me know that a number of files will be upgraded
> (Perl, gpg, fontconfig, etc.).
>
> However, the upgrade stops due to failed dependencies such as:
> perl = 5.8.1-46 is needed by perl-5.8.1-81
> fontconfig = 2.2.1-23 is needed by fontconfig-2.2.1-58
> ...
>
> These packages depend on older versions it thinks. What is the cleanest
> way to rectify this and upgrade the system? Force the upgrade, try to
> uninstall the older packages and then install the new...?
>

Just unsubscribe from update-prpm and security-prpm repositories.

ain

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