Fwd: Re: [Comm-en] Install issue

[James F.]

I finally got around to updating my sources.list file and downloaded the new 
XFree86. During the install I got an error stating that two versions of 
XFree86-xls existed and it couldn't proceed. I was reading through the 
apt-get help and it had a lot of info, but I don't know how to proceed. I 
tried to remove, I got the same error. I tried to autoclean and got the same 
error. Any idea how to proceed?
Thanks,
James


>From: Michael Shigorin <mike at osdn.org.ua>
>Reply-To: community-en at altlinux.org
>To: community-en at altlinux.org
>Subject: Fwd: Re: [Comm-en] Install issue
>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:11:32 +0200
>
>hmm... better put it here too :-)  misaimed...
>
>----- Forwarded message from Michael Shigorin <mike at osdn.org.ua> -----
>
>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:09:56 +0200
>From: Michael Shigorin <mike at osdn.org.ua>
>To: "James F." <anathema890 at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Comm-en] Install issue
>
>On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:31:02PM -0700, James F. wrote:
> > I don't mean to ask so many questions
>
>np :)
>
> > but do I download all of the xfree86 rpms, or just one?
>
>Do rpm -qa | grep ^XFree86 to find out which ones to upgrade;
>in fact, if you're on kind of broadband (so that it won't
>interrupt), you can try this scriptlet:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>pkglist=""
>prefix="ftp://212.13.100.3/pub/shrek/ALTLinux/master22/RPMS.master/"
>suffix="-4.3.0-alt7.M22.i586.rpm"
>rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME}\n' \
>| grep ^XFree86 \
>| while read i; do
>     pkglist="$pkglist $prefix$i$suffix"
>   done
>rpm -Fvh $pkglist
>
>"I didn't actually test this!" :-)
>
>*OR* you could use the benefit of that collection being a
>repository, use http://search.altlinux.ru/apt/sources.list-shrek
>(just add to your /etc/apt/sources.list) and
>
>	apt-get update; apt-get install XFree86
>
>should handle this issue.
>
> > If just one, which one?
>
>A set of, accordingly to already installed. (so we've looked at
>three ways for doing that -- rpm -Fvh XFree*4.3.0*, Funky Script
>(tm) and apt-get)
>
> > Also, how do I FTP from the shell?
>
>lftp is my favourite client :)
>
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>
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