[ale] apt-get ques for Debian users

[Barry Hawkins]

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Jay Loden wrote:
| I run Debian (Mepis install, basically Debian Testing/Unstable) on my
laptop,
| and I have been using apt-get quite happily for about a month or two
now.
| However, I recently had a huge number of packages upgrade after an
apt-get
| upgrade (I'm assuming because of the new Debian 3.0r4), and now I have a
| whole big list of "packages kept back" when I do apt-get upgrade.
|
| What does this mean, and why are they being held back?  They look to
be mostly
| updated KDE packages.  Should I be doing apt-get dist-upgrade ?  Are they
| being held back due to possible conflicts?
[...]
Jay,
~    I would recommend using aptitude to sort out the dependencies and
conflicts.  The Debain KDE packaging team apparently upset quite a few
people with how they handled the move to 3.3.1.  The Gnome team, on the
other hand, have received accolades for making a smooth transition from
2.6 to 2.8.  The recent update to Woody (3.0r4) would not affect you if
you are using testing or unstable.  You may want to post the content of
your /etc/apt/sources.list; if you are mixing unstable and testing, you
can get some really wacked out dependency issues.
~    Do not run apt-get dist-upgrade.  With your present state that could
prove disastrous.

Sincerely,
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Barry Hawkins
All Things Computed
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