Apt dependency hell
Paul Lussier
p.lussier at comcast.net
Wed Nov 29 12:49:23 EST 2006
"Tom Buskey" <tom at buskey.name> writes:
> <humor>
>
> I thought apt wasn't suseptible to RPM dependency hell? At least that
> what all the Debian people have been telling RedHat users for years.
They lied and you believed them ;)
> </humor>
Those people have never mixed a system together from stable/testing/unstable :)
> Multiple repositories have finally come to Debian.
Debian has had them for years :)
Try using aptitude install foo. I find that aptitude seems to do a
better job of "fixing" things than apt-get.
(for varying definitions of "fixing", kinda like being "helpful" :)
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Paul
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