Re: packages available, but apt-get won't offer to install them

2002-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 12:10:09PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jeffrey> Hello, I had the strangest problem tonight. There are new > Jeffrey> versions of many GNOME 2 packages, but apt-get does not offer > Jeffrey> to upgrade them.

Re: packages available, but apt-get won't offer to install them

2002-06-11 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Hubert" == Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hubert> You should look through the rest of the man page to find out how Hubert> to make it do what you want it to. (If you want the Hubert> quick-and-easy answer, then you shouldn't be using the Hubert> experimental packages in the first

Re: packages available, but apt-get won't offer to install them

2002-06-11 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeffrey> Hello, I had the strangest problem tonight. There are new Jeffrey> versions of many GNOME 2 packages, but apt-get does not offer Jeffrey> to upgrade them. For example, the gnome-panel2 package was at Jeffrey> 2.0.0-1 according

Re: packages available, but apt-get won't offer to install them

2002-06-11 Thread andrej hocevar
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:07:28PM -0700, Jeffrey Baker wrote: > I had the strangest problem tonight. There are new versions of many > GNOME 2 packages, but apt-get does not offer to upgrade them. For Maybe you have a preferences file lying around in your /etc/apt directory? -- echo ${girl_nam

Re: packages available, but apt-get won't offer to install them

2002-06-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > > Is there a command I need to run to make apt-get forget itself? > did you try 'apt-get update' then 'apt-get upgrade'? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

packages available, but apt-get won't offer to install them

2002-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Baker
Hello, I had the strangest problem tonight. There are new versions of many GNOME 2 packages, but apt-get does not offer to upgrade them. For example, the gnome-panel2 package was at 2.0.0-1 according to apt-cache show, and the installed version was 1.5.something. But, when I did apt-get install