I did a apt-get update. Acually I followed the instructions on
www.progeny.com web site. For your instructions, would that install them
or remove them?
Brian
Brian Schramm
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On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:30:20PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote:
> > I wanted to remove all the ximian files from my system since they are
> > giving me a lot of problems. I also wanted to change to Progeny since I
> > have a vidio card that works better under xfree 4.x then xfree 3.x. So, I
> > followed the instructions on how to do this.
> >
> > My problem is that the ximian files are still listed in my dselect list
> > even though I have taken the site out of my sources.list file. How do I
> > get rid of them so I can install the ones from progeny and debian sites?
>
> Have you run update from dselect? If so, then they are probably still
> listed in dselect, because the packages from ximian are still installed
> on your system. The versions of these packages in the debian archive
> are lower I guess, so they are not upgraded.
>
> You can try typing this into a root shell:
>
> for pkg in $( COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l "*" | awk '/^ii.*ximian/ {print $2}' )
> do
> apt-get --reinstall install $pkg
> done
>
> Try:
>
> COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l "*" | grep ximian
>
> to see if that fixed it.
> Cheers,
>
>
> Joost
>
