[ale] Debian package insanity

[Jason Day]

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:52:55PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Does the directory /usr/X11R6/bin exist?  If not, create that directory, 
> then touch /usr/X11R6/bin/term and see if that helps.

Eureka!  Oddly enough, /usr/X11R6/bin did exist, but it was a regular
file.  I removed it and created the directory, and was then able to
remove xterm and fix the rest.  Thanks for the pointer!

> The Debian team has said for the longest of time that dselect was the 
> only 100% assured product that fully worked with dependencies, apt, etc.

Not any more :)  The upgrade guide[1] recommends and assumes aptitude.

Thanks again,
Jason

1 - http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
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