Grr, I've got to get to a mailer more flexible than GMail. Sorry for the direct reply Andy.
> I accidentally used apt-get to install a few packages yesterday, and when my > nightly automatic aptitude update && aptitude -s -f dist-upgrade ran > overnight, it wants to remove the newly installed packages (mysql 4.1) and > replace them with the older ones. > > I had to manually run aptitude remove <old mysql packages> before it could > continue. This seems odd to me. I've been using aptitude for all my interactive installs and apt-get for anything on the commandline and haven't noticed any problems. Am I working my way towards a problem? Dave