Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun Microsystems wrote: > The problem is that apt-get and Synaptic both hiccup on this package and > refuse to install any updates until the offending package has been > removed. Is there a way to flag this package as "really OK" and have > apt-get/synaptic to stop being offended by it? I seem to remember, from a discussion about the merits of yum vs apt, that apt is particularly fussy about this, but that yum doesn't see it as a problem. So using yum would be one way around the problem, at least! Jonathan