I hope this is the right place to ask, I'm not really sure so if anyone can help, please???
I've been using debian-unstable due to requiring lots of current software but have run into a couple of problems: some packages I've needed to recompile to use different libraries (or versions of libraries) keep getting overwritten by dselect... is there any way to stop dselect from overwriting -current- versions of packages that have been installed? I -like- getting updated versions in the hopes they'll fix my headaches (such as apache's requiring libdb2 for instance or kpackage requiring the nonexistant librpm0 which conflicts with librpm4...) Also trafstats won't uninstall. Or install. And it halts dselect every time... *sigh*. I haven't manage to find anything to even suggest -why- it's refusing to do this... suggestions? Okay, so things occasionally break when using 'unstable' versions. There -should- be a way to recover somehow, right? incidentally I -am- a programmer. Just not very familiar with debian packaging system (I'm a mandrake convertee :). Also a quick niggle - is there any way to speed up apt's local installation database search? Everything's so convoluted in dependancies I'm at 315462 files and directories installed *ow* and it takes up to -5- minutes on my wee little celeron 400 to search before installing anything. maybe I should just quit trying to do updates *deep sigh*
