>> Though I have not tried this yet (the machine with the >> development environment has not yet been upgraded) but I >> presume that by "... first purge all the '-dev' packages >> ..." he is referring to using dselect or dpkg ...
Yes, exactly. Dselect handles this directly (though I'm the wrench-and-vicegrips type that prefers to run dpkg directly :-) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .