%% Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: oa> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:09:02PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
>> I fear I've done something very wrong here. I'm trying to stay up to date, >> so I run apt-get update; apt-get upgrade on a regular basis. >> This time I paid attention; quite a vew packages were held back, so I >> tried to install them. I found that libc6 was old: oa> Installmanual and my "Debian Reference" recommend to use "dselect oa> for these occasion. Just trust us :-) Whenever this happens I just use apt-get install directly: $ apt-get install libc6 libc6-dev locales Usually it will work on "held back" packages, depending on why it was held back, and if it doesn't work at least it'll print a bit of info on why. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
