[PlanetCCRMA] Apt problems

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Wed Nov 24 14:47:01 2004


On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 14:19, William M. Quarles wrote:
> Rick B wrote:
>  > When I install apt-get one of the first things I do is "apt-get remove
>  > up2date". I can see how up2date would cause problems with apt, just like
>  > using multiple repositories can cause problems for apt.
>  
> Thanks for the suggestion, but no thanks.  Some people use apt and some 
> people use yum.  I would prefer to use one program that does both.  I 
> don't think that Up2Date could really cause problems with Apt since they 
> both are really just highly-network-capable front-ends for RPM.

Well, it does seem to have problems, right?, otherwise this thread would
not exist :-) What is the root of the problem we don't know. Could you
post the extraneous file conflicts that up2date was reporting?

-- Fernando