apt and purging "iconsistent" packages

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On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 18:19, Deepak Saxena wrote:
> Attempted to 'apt-get upgrade' my knoppix system into an unstable
> distro and everything seemed to go OK until it tried to install joe.

How did you upgrade?

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade =20

is what you should have used. If you didn't you should try that.=20
Normally you just do apt-get upgrade, however in the event you are going
from woody to testing or sid (or knoppix to sid) you really should do
the dist-upgrade.

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Derek Neighbors
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