On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 11:19:58 -0300 Alvin Beach <alvinbeach@gmail.com> wrote:
The solution has been to install Smart (made by the guys that bring us the Guru repos).
After KDE moved I had a look at smart. Somehow it wasn't able to deal with my set of updates I had done with my 10.1 using apt (kde, gnome, etc.). smart wanted to remove several devel packages. I didn't dig too deep so far but it looked like smart wasn't able to resolve "circular" dependencies, i.e. A-devel was about to be removed as B-devel was to be removed because of C-devel that had to be removed because of A-devel. I installed yum and that worked without problems. I had to install cups-devel first, maybe smart provided that info as well, but "smart upgrade --explain" is almost "unreadable". Still I don't like yum and smart as much as apt, mainly because of the type of information they give to the user (smart seems to be either extremely closed-mouthed or overly talkative). And it seems they don't have as much repositories available to apt. Or maybe I just need to spend more time on those new tools. My 2 cents, Ingo -- "What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums I suppose." --Rincewind, Terry Pratchett "Eric"