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Conflicts?

Posted Dec 2, 2003 21:22 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Conflicts? by southey
Parent article: New features in APT-RPM

In such cases (where some programs need an old version and some need a new version of some package), apt will tell you that if you proceed with the install, certain packages will be removed, and will then ask you if you want to proceed. Then it's up to you to choose.

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