[back on-list] on Mon, 12 Apr 2004 02:02:06PM -0400, J F insinuated: > I don't have a specific answer to your problem, > but using aptitude seems to ease upgrade problems. > Also, having testing, unstable, and stable all in > /etc/apt/sources.list seems to get aptitude > to converge on a working solution.
yeah, i do have all of them in there. i'm relatively new to aptitude, and have never been a convert, specifically because every time i try to install any one thing with it, it wants to upgrade the rest of my system and install at least 50 new packages. i probably don't have it synched with something or other -- probably related to the error i see whenever i start it up: Apt errors W: Can't open Aptitude extended status file but these problems with aptitude make me shy away from it. am i using it wrong, or something? </nori> -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/ // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net ^`~'^
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