Yesterday I had to re-install a lot of packages as my system became 'unusable'. The problem began when I tried to fix Star Office after upgrading. I think my system was slink/potato but I couldn't tell the percentage of each system. Anyway I thought one way to ensure that the system works is to put a slink CD and update/upgrade libc6 and all hell broke loose. Not that apt did not warm me that it will be uninstalling a lot of packages. But I had faith that if I said update libc6 it will leave everything in its state and just update. It told me it was going to uninstall several applications. Well I thought that did not matter since it will install them again. - That how my system died. I finally had to rebuild it one app at the time.
The good thing is that Star Office works. Learned my lesson though. /------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 8469 /------------------------------------------------------------------------------/
