Re: apt-get obselete

Try Slackware.

I was amazed when I saw a friend (linux newbie) apt-getting an KDE irc client
with the result that the complete friggin' KDE was replaced.
Or better: *should* be replaced, but the process broke, stalled and left said
friend with a system rendered useless.

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:15:39 -0700 (PDT)
Colin Gordon <chaospenguins-/[email protected]> wrote:

> i just love how sometimes when you do apt-get on a
> debian installation to install a much-needed package,
> you occasionally are told that a package is in the
> database, but it is obsolete or for some other reason
> will not be installed.  this happened to me just last
> night with the ncurses package.