On Monday 13 June 2005 04:31 pm, Tom Allison wrote: > Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: > > Help me please! > > > > I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to > > Sarge and it is a DISASTER. > > > > HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! ! > > With a post like this, I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't get much > help. You're not exactly welcoming... > > I don't know why you used dselect to do this. > I am pretty certain that you really don't want to use dselect when > doing a distribution upgrade. Did you read the very fine manual > before upgrading? > > If not, then you might consider doing that now. > > However, if you are short on time and can't be bothered, you might > attempt the following: > > Assumption: > between your sources.list and preferences files you are choosing > stable by default and that you have a sources.list that includes all > the proper debian branches. > > apt-get autoclean; this will clean up your cache directory, good > thing to do every once in a while but no required. > > apt-get update; > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > This is the way you are supposed to do an upgrade of this type. Not > dselect.
I am not so dure about 'not' using dselect. It has been deprecated for aptitude but this does not mean it is a proper tool to do a version upgrade, which I believe it is.. a fine tool. > > If it doesn't work for you, start with an apt-get check to see what > the status is. Then you might be able to get some more useful > information for people to use in order to help you get out of this > jam. help us to help you. > > However, if you continue to come off as "How can you do this to me" > then enjoy being a pseudo-victim becuase you were the one who didn't > read the fine manual. Self Abuse is nothing we can be guilty of. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]