I have just tried to upgrade from stable to frozen. I did apt-get update, which worked except for one timed-out file. I did it again to get that file. I then did 'apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade'. That seemed to go ok but stopped without asking very many configuration questions, and reporting 47 out of (about) 150 packages not installed. I repeated the above command but it reported the same thing. I then installed some of the 47, with dpkg, and that seemed to go normally. I then tried apt-get -f install and that reports Reading Package Lists ... Done Building Dependency Tree ... Done Correcting Dependencies .... and goes and goes and goes, using 99% cpu, for 5 or 10 or 20 minutes, which is as long as I've let it go before aborting it.
I've installed most of the 47, but am stuck on tetex-bin. 'dpkg -i tetex-bin' reports 'tetex-bin depends on libz1, which is not installed'. I can't find libz1, but tetex-bin's depends, in the package archive, does include zlib1g. Should I let apt-get run as long as it wants? Is there a libz1? Am I done for? Thanks Charles Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please reply directly as I am not a subscriber.)