On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 07:52 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 12:44 -0700, Mike Hoy wrote: > > synaptic does automatically resolved dependencies, but not all. > > for example try installing FC3 and then install evolution or amule. > > not gonna work. amule will require the libcurl.so.2 fix (see thread > > about libcur.so.2) > > The libcurl problem occurred because (a) your configured list of > repositories includes one with an FC1 or FC2 build of amule, requiring > libcurl.so.2, and (b) your configured list of repositories did not > include one with a suitable package containing libcurl.so.2 that did not > clash with your already-installed curl package. This would have happened > whether you were using yum or an apt-based depsolver like synaptic. ACK. > The "smart" package manager may have been able to solve the problem by > downgrading curl, but only if you had no other packages installed that > depended on libcurl.so.2, which I think is very unlikely. Which in fact only means to shift the actual package conflict to a later point of time. At that future point, you'll either see this conflict again, or it will probably prevent/block you from further upgrading/updating. One of the reasons I am not convinced about smart at all. Ralf
