apt-get gone crazy?

[Ben Stringer]

On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 13:42, Gerry Doris wrote:
> I have up2date, yum and apt installed.  up2date and yum are working fine.
> apt-get was also working a short time ago but it seems to have gone off 
> the rails lately.
> 
> When I try and run "apt-get upgrade" it wants to remove every single 
> package on my PC.  

Does it want to replace them all with new packages?

> 
> I've tried removing and installing apt but that doesn't do anything.  Does 
> anyone have a clue why this is happening?

Do you always run "apt-get update" before attempting an upgrade? If not,
try this - it will refresh apt's package list.

Cheers, Ben