Hi, I would like to know if there's a simple start document about debian package management (e.g. an howto). dpkg, apt-get, dselect are mighty but quite hard to really understand. I would also like to have a description of the sort of link there are beetween package, an also a description of package states :)
The fact is that i recently commited an error on my debian 2.2: upgraded libc6, libc6-dev, libstdc++, libg++, libgcc, lib cpp. Sample output: Preparing to replace libc6 2.1.3-10 (using .../libc6_2.2.1-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6 ... Replacing files in old package ldso ... I didn't want that, but ... it happened. Now i'm quite nervous about my running http (compiled one), postmaster (deb package) etc. Are there reasons for me to be nervous ? Should I re-install my old packages ? How to "downgrade" packages ? Thank you in advance
