John wrote: > > Foolish me, all this time I believed the propaganda that apt-get (and > all related package managers) would automatically install whatever was > required (if it was available).
Both apt-get and yum (Fedora uses this) will look for dependencies to make sure they exist and are up-to-date-enough. Even if they "want" to upgrade, they will tell you what they are doing, and ask if it's OK. Greg
