[plug] APT-RPM problems

[Steege, Phil E]

Thank you Patrick.  I am running 7.3.
I think Matt has me on the right track now.
I was using the 'apt-get upgrade' incorrectly.  I was not intending to do a
complete upgrade, just an upgrade of abiword.
I subscribe to a service (http://www.tummy.com/krud) which gives updated
CD's each month for Redhat so I use that for full upgrades.
I just wanted to try apt for individual package updates.

Thanks to PLUG again.

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Tehvand [mailto:Patrick at perthix.net] 
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 10:52 AM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: RE: [plug] APT-RPM problems


I'm going to take a punt and say that you are running 7.3? 

It seems some of the packages they have at tuxfamily.org are not as
up-to-date (no pun intended) as I would like (they seem to be a few days
behind the redhat-announce list)

and you may not have all the updates that redhat have released causing the
interesting dependency problems...

All the apt-get upgrade's I have done have worked fine... I suggest if you
have the time and inclination to do a straight apt-get upgrade - that will
upgrade everything you have to the latest release from redhat and you
shouldn't have any issues.

cheers

Patrick

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