Hello robin,Sometimes, but if things don't work, you can just uninstall the offending package. The thing not to do is ignore error messages about conflicts - that can land you in deep doo-doo.
Sunday, September 28, 2003, 1:54:01 PM, you wrote:
r> Wasn't 9.0-9.1 the time of the big version change in gcc? That r> could be the source of your problems - if so, it's a rare event.
Don't know, but I hope it's better going to 9.2.
r> Other incompatibilities sometimes occur because of updated r> libraries,
When I tried to get some apps, the lib problems seemed to be the biggest sticking point.
r> though _sometimes_ you can get round them by using the r> nodeps option when installing.
Didn't know you could do that. Wouldn't that cause problems?
Sir Robin
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