On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > I've noticed for awhile now that pretty much everything in testing is > held back when I go to do an apt-get upgrade. Today, as an > emperiment, I tried to manually apt-get install libc6 to break through > the log jam, and ulitimately I got this error: [...] > > Should I go ahead and do as suggested, or am I going to hose my > system?
When I get conflicts during apt-get upgrade I usually launch dselect, which lets me see exactly what is happening and also play with different possible actions and their consequences.