On Wed, 15 May 2002, Amy Tanner wrote: > Although I've used apt to upgrade apt before, on one box today I had > problems. I ended up having to use apt-get install apt to upgrade apt, > and in the process it removed up2date and up2date-gnome. Can someone > explain this? > [deletia] > > [root at leopard atanner]# apt-get install apt > Processing File Dependencies... Done > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > gnorpm popt rpm rpm-build rpm-devel rpm-python > The following packages will be REMOVED: > up2date up2date-gnome > The following packages will be upgraded > apt gnorpm popt rpm rpm-build rpm-devel rpm-python > 7 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove(replace) and 1 not > upgraded.Need to get 13.6MB of archives. After unpacking 11.4MB will be > used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n > Just a guess here: check the dependencies/conflicts for gnorpm. It probably conflicts (and replaces) up2date. Plug: dselect can be used to easily show and help resolve conflict trees and plays nicely with apt. -- Daniel Taylor dante at plethora.net