debian?

[David A. Bandel]

On Sat, 17 May 2003 12:50:19 -0500
C M Reinehr <cmrNO at SPAMamsent.com> wrote:

> Gary Wilson wrote:

[snip]

> 
> Another problem I ran into came from my inexperience with Debian and 
> apt-get. I got myself into a "fine mess" when I did my first upgrade.
> I forget, now, what I was trying to do, but I kept getting whipsawed.
> I made a selection in dselect and the next thing I new, the entire KDE
> system had been erased. Then, when I reinstalled KDE, whatever else it
> was that I was trying to install, would get erased. (Looking back, I'm
> sure the problem stemmed from my adding some new sources to the
> sources.list which resulted in some library conflicts, but some
> documentation regarding upgrading would have been nice -- or else,
> just don't upgrade, until the next Knoppix version is released!)

When you change things that affect other things, you?ll be forced to a
dependency resolution screen (in dselect anyway).  If you see a bunch of
your apps being removed, hit <Shift>+R to return to what you had before.

If you really want something, then go ahead and also check it (while
you?re still on the dependency resolution screen) and exit using
<Shift>+Q.  However, you may break things, so if you do this, you?re on
your own.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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