On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 12:38:31PM -0700, Richard Warren wrote: | First, thanks to everyone who helped me get started. | I'm using the /etc/apt/preferences file and I'm now | able to keep my woody installation without having | dselect constantly want to uninstall my KDE2.2 and | Koffice. | | However, I'm still having troubles with dselect. Even | though I used apt-get to install the sid elements that | I wanted, apparently there are some conflicts that | apt-get didn't see.
dselect tells you that you need "Recommends" packages, not just "Depends" packages. This would be my guess. See which packages dselect is talking about and use 'apt-cache showpkg <name>' to see what is in the Depends, Conflicts, and Recommends lines. | As an unrelated third question, what's the best way to | upgrade the kernel? I would like to move to a 2.4 | kernel if possible. I thought the dist-upgrade to | woody would take care of that, but it looks like I've | still got 2.2. The system will not automatically play with your kernel because that is dangerous. An automated tool is fairly unlikely to correctly guess what setup you want/need and many people like to build their own custom configured kernels from scratch. As a result you need to explicitly install it with 'apt-get install kernel-image-<version>'. There are a few changes in the 2.4 kernel package that you should be aware of before you upgrade : o the ide-cdrom support is in a module, not built in o you need to configure your boot loader to provide an initrd to the kernel when booting o you will not have USB keyboard support unless you adjust the config a little (the simplest way would be to add the usb modules to /etc/modules) o umm, anything else I missed? Having said all that, I have been quite happy with my 2.4.8 kernel. I recompiled it to include framebuffer support (and have a better console now) and the devfs and usb support is cool. HTH, -D