xlibs and xlibs-data

[Ed Cogburn]

Sean C Sieger wrote:

> which failed when xlibs-data was unpacked and encountered with xlibs. Are
> the two packages incompatible or something? --

Hi, Sean,

Nope, they will both install fine together if you're getting both packages
from breezy (they have the exact same version number including the -NN
part).  It may require manual intervention with dpkg to force the delete of
the old packages then the simultaneous install of the new ones, and/or
there could be other dependency conflicts from other packages that are
confusing apt which will also require manual intervention.

Are you really sure you want to mess with Breezy right now?  The advantages
over hoary are still minor at this stage and the disadvantages can be big
(I've got KDE breakage right now from a recent Breezy upgrade - I've been
messing with Debian Unstable / Ubuntu Hoary-then-Breezy for nearly a decade
and even I am considering a forced downgrade to hoary to get my desktop
working again (at least the KDE part).  No offense Sean (really), but my
honest answer to your question would be if you have to ask how to fix a
relatively simple package conflict like this (see the help text from
running "dpkg --force-help"), you shouldn't really be messing with Breezy
right now, because at the moment, its more unstable than Debian's Sid (aka.
Unstable) was when I left it a couple of months ago!  You're likely to
waste a lot of time trying to fix obscure breakages, as I am right now.  On
the other hand, going to the bleeding edge may be a fast (but hard and
painfull) way to learn Linux, its what I did.  I'm just letting you know
what lies ahead, only you can decide if the pain is worth it or not.

Had I the chance to do my newbie internship all over again (this assumes of
course that I've actually graduated from this internship, which I sometimes
suspect I haven't), I would have spent my entire first 18 months or so with
Debian on an "old", stable version, before moving to the bleeding edge. 
Alas, hindsight == 20/20.