apt_get problems all over the place!!!

[nathan r. hruby]

On Mon, 5 May 2003, Daniel J. Costello wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> I'm installing YDL 3.0 on a iMac revision A.  The install went fine.  
> But every since the first attempt to run "apt-get update" I have been 
> getting errors.  At one point when I do a "apt-get upgrade" I get a 
> list saying that I need to remove abotu 100 packages, and reinstall 
> about 100 to meet dependencies.
> 
> I also had to change the /etc/apt/sources.list to reflect packages.main 
> and not packages.base which doesn't exist where its looking for it.
> 
> Has anyone else had these problems, or know of the solution?
> 

I belive apt is currently broken in YDL-3.0.  The current workaround is to 
use "yum" instead.  

FWIW, yum is darn nice, and if you've ever used earlier versions of YDL,
yum will feel quite familiar, as it's an offshoot project of the original
YUP! program that came with YDL-1.x and 2.0 and 2.1.

-n
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