Re: apt-get/xscreensaver problem

2003-11-12 Thread James Strandboge
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 10:10, Piers Kittel wrote: > Marc, > > > The unofficial package 'fireflies' is flawed. This is not Debian's > > fault. Remove it. It is not the responsibility of an official package > > to attempt to avoid conflicts with some hacked up unofficial package. > > desire:~#

Re: apt-get/xscreensaver problem

2003-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 03:10:20PM +, Piers Kittel wrote: > Marc, > > > The unofficial package 'fireflies' is flawed. This is not Debian's > > fault. Remove it. It is not the responsibility of an official package > > to attempt to avoid conflicts with some hacked up unofficial package. > >

apt-get/xscreensaver problem

2003-11-12 Thread Piers Kittel
Marc, > The unofficial package 'fireflies' is flawed. This is not Debian's > fault. Remove it. It is not the responsibility of an official package > to attempt to avoid conflicts with some hacked up unofficial package. desire:~# apt-get remove --purge fireflies Reading Package Lists... Done Buil

Re: apt-get/xscreensaver problem

2003-11-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:31:24PM +, Piers Kittel wrote: > Needed to do an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" and it finished, but > noted an error, so did an "apt-get -f install", and get the following: > So what am I doing wrong here? The unofficial package 'fireflies' is flawed. This

apt-get/xscreensaver problem

2003-11-12 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all Needed to do an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" and it finished, but noted an error, so did an "apt-get -f install", and get the following: desire:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extr