On Wed, 15 May 2002, Amy Tanner wrote:

> Although I've used apt to upgrade apt before, on one box today I had
> problems.  I ended up having to use apt-get install apt to upgrade apt,
> and in the process it removed up2date and up2date-gnome.  Can someone
> explain this?
>
[deletia]
>
> [root at leopard atanner]# apt-get install apt
> Processing File Dependencies... Done
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   gnorpm popt rpm rpm-build rpm-devel rpm-python
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   up2date up2date-gnome
> The following packages will be upgraded
>   apt gnorpm popt rpm rpm-build rpm-devel rpm-python
> 7 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove(replace) and 1 not
> upgraded.Need to get 13.6MB of archives. After unpacking 11.4MB will be
> used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
>
Just a guess here: check the dependencies/conflicts for gnorpm.
It probably conflicts (and replaces) up2date.

Plug: dselect can be used to easily show and help resolve
conflict trees and plays nicely with apt.

-- 
Daniel Taylor
dante at plethora.net