Re: Using apt

[mike808 <mike808@users.sourceforge.net>]

On Sunday 18 August 2002 09:35 pm, you wrote:
> > Whoa! What's this about "REMOVED"?
>
> For some reason, apt seems to think that installing the latest licq is
> going to break those other packages.  I'd be curious to know where apt
> is getting the newer licq package.  Freshrpms?  Rawhide?

I think it's mattrpms as he's got those same libraries in his repository.

Here's my sources.list:
# For xine/ogle/kxine/oKle (I think)
rpm ftp://orca.st.usm.edu pub/apt/redhat/7.3/en/i386 mattrpms
rpm-src ftp://orca.st.usm.edu /pub/apt/redhat/7.3/en/i386 mattrpms
#
# SILUG
rpm http://ftp.silug.org/pub/apt redhat/7.3/en/i386 os updates-os
#rpm-src http://ftp.silug.org/pub/apt redhat/7.3/en os updates-os
# Why are src rpms i386-specific?
rpm-src http://ftp.silug.org/pub/apt redhat/7.3/en/i386 os updates-os
# Red Hat Linux 7.3
rpm http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/7.3/en/i386 os updates freshrpms
rpm-src http://apt.freshrpms.net redhat/7.3/en/i386 os updates freshrpms



> > Does this mean that there's a new version of licq, but these dependent
> > packages (licq-gnome licq-kde licq-qt licq-text) haven't been?
>
> It's possible.
>
> > If I answer "Y", do I need to manually re-install (apt-get install, of
> > course) each of the above packages since they were "removed" by the
> > upgrade?
>
> Well, I would probably "apt-get install licq{,-gnome,-kde,-qt,-text}"
> and see how that shakes out before just letting apt remove the other
> packages.  There's probably some other dependency that gets introduced
> or something...
>
> Steve

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