On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 03:13:15PM -0800, Ben Rosenberg wrote: : * John LeMay (jlemay@njmc.com) [030301 15:01]: : ->So, following some advice posted here on the list a while back, I did a : ->"apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" last night before I went off to bed. : ->When I checked out the progress this am, apt-get complained that is was : ->"leaving back" all of the installed kde 3.0.x packages, and rpm had : ->failed on trying to install the kde 3.1 packages that apt-get had : ->downloaded. : -> : ->Am I missing something? Why were the 3.0.x packages "left back"? I : ->assume this syntax (while grammatically incorrect) is trying to say that : ->it is not going to upgrade the kde packages. If so, then when is apt : ->grabbing those packages and causing rpm to fail trying to install them? : ->Finally, why is rpm failing to upgrade those packages (autorun with -Uvh : ->options) indicating package conflicts between the kde 3.1 and kde 3.0.x : ->packages? : : Well, this is mainly because the 3.1 package have changes to them that : just borks apt a bit. There are programs that have been packaged into : different packages then they were in when 3.0.x was current. My solution Try 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. This should take care of the shuffling packages in kde3.1. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that!