On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 08:44:35PM -0800, Ben Rosenberg wrote: : * Tom Nielsen (tom@neuro-logic.com) [030302 20:16]: : ->I keep getting an error when trying to update from KDE 3.0 to 3.1. After : ->everything downloads, I get an rpm error. I've tried it 4 times and : ->removing packages from cache 2 of those times. Nada. : -> : ->I seem to remember that I could do it with apt-get, but cant' remember : ->the command. Can anyone help? : : SuSE changed which packages some programs come in and as a result when : Synaptic runs apt it gets errors of things conflicting when they should : not. Because these programs are in completely different packages then : they were before..apt can not upgrade them safely so it quits. I would : just open and xterm and run "apt-get upgrade" because it's already : downloaded the packages so it won't try to do so again. It will just try : to upgrade your system with the packages that it's downloaded already. : It will tell you what the conflicts are...and I would remove only the : few packages that are being the major PITA. One of the major offenders : is pixieplus-kde...this one always bitches because they put pixieplus : into another package. There are a few more but I don't remember them off : hand. Try 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. 'dist-upgrade' is what you want to use when portions of packages get shuffled around. Oh, and as a precusor. For those that will be install XFree86 4.3.0 via apt, you'll need to do a little more. 'apt-get -o rpm::options::=--replacefiles dist-upgrade' The "-o rpm::options::=--replacefiles" is necessary since some of the XFree86-* files were previously part of the aaa_base package. --Jerry ps--does anyone know where to submit feedback for the SuSE apt4rpm page. It might be useful to put these tidbits of info up there. Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that!