Have you seen my recent postings on this subject? Did you upgrade apt and dpkg before you did the dist-upgrade?
If you didn't do this, many things break on install. These breakages are not the fault of the packages that get involved, but the fault of an old, incapable apt-get. The newest version works much better. Luck, On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Blars Blarson wrote: > I've been running woody fine on a couple of systems, and decied to upgrade > my potato system. The "apt-get dist-upgrade" failed horribly, and the > bug reports have been bouncing around since. Noone wants to accept > responcibility for this mess. The apt maintainer closed 135180, > the libstdc++2.10-dev maintainer didn't believe he was at fault and > blamed libdb2, so bug 135651 is currently assigned there. > > Since then I have been able to get my system partially back (X not > tested yet) but most users wouldn't have the skills or patience to do > an upgrade by trial and error dpkg -i installing and removal of > non-vital packages till you find something that will install so you > can install its dependencies, etc. > > scripts of the mess are available from http://www.blars.org/obfuscate/ > > -- > Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.blars.org/blars.html > "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of "Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux" _-_-_-_-_-_- _- _- _- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 _- _- Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road _- _- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _- _- _- _-_-_-_-_- Released under the GNU Free Documentation License _-_-_-_- available at: http://www.polaris.net/~dwarf/
