[Slapt-get-user] Confused slapt-get?

[Per Börjesson]

R Dicaire wrote:
> On 12/2/06, Uncurbed <uncurbed at swipnet.se> wrote:
>> Try to remove both installs and then install libgsf-1.14.1-i486-1 again.
> 
> You mean libgsf-1.14.1-i486-1frg, which is what gnumeric will look
> for. I'm assuming gnumeric was installed as part of frg, not slack
> itself. Per did not specify...

I know, that was sloppy ;)

I'm trying to get frgnome-2.14.3 onboard a slackware box that I have upgraded
to 11.0 using slapt-get. I believe part of my problem is that frgnome-2.14.3
was really designed for slack 10.2. Regardless, I would have expected slapt-get
to UPGRADE from libgsf-1.14.1-i486-1 to libgsf-1.14.1-i486-1frg. Instead, it
claims "libgsf is up to date", so in fact the frg package was never installed.
When I ask slapt-get afterwards it claims both packages are installed, even
if /var/log says otherwise!

If nobody comes up with a clever explanation I will simply try something like

slapt-get --install libgsf-1.14.1-i486-1frg

and hopefully slapt-get will understand that it has to remove libgsf-1.14.1-i486-1
before it can put the frg package on the system. Otherwise I shall have to
manually remove libgsf-1.14.1-i486-1 first.

Regards
Per