apt-get dist-upgrade hosed gnome

bosewicht · 10-24-2003, 07:39 AM

i tried to apt-get dist-upgrade to both sarge and sid and both times it hosed gnome. The error was broken dependencies and it kept asking me if libgnome-perl was installed. when i tried to apt-get that i got failed dependencies. I just can't figure out whats going on

crashmeister · 10-24-2003, 08:43 AM

Gnome seems to be slightly out of whack in unstable at the moment.

bosewicht · 10-24-2003, 09:39 AM

well, it did it for testing too though...i got the same errors

Mega Man X · 10-24-2003, 10:23 AM

apt-get was pretty cool few months ago and I thought that with it, my dependencies problem would be solved. Using apt-get nowadays you will most liked end with a broken distro

. At least I've broken both Redhat and Jamd with apt-get...

crashmeister · 10-24-2003, 12:52 PM

apt-get isn't really made for rpm's it's like running a M$ app with wine and hope for the best.

Mega Man X · 10-24-2003, 02:39 PM

yup, in agreement here...

Starchild · 10-25-2003, 04:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by crashmeister
apt-get isn't really made for rpm's it's like running a M$ app with wine and hope for the best.

I don't know about that... running an M$ app with wine will not mess with your distro, unless you did something really stupid, or intentionally. You usually don't run wine as root

Though, as for reliability, I would agree.