testing dist-upgrade question

From: Richard Kimber (rkimber_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 03/31/04

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    Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:54:23 +0100
To: debian users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    After a dist-upgrade some X packages didn't install properly and now nedit
    doesn't work because it can't find libXp.so.6.

    If I ask aptitude to install the libXp package, it wants to remove 505
    packages, which doesn't sound optimal.

    Any suggestions? 

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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
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