On Sat Apr 14 02:18:40 2001 Oliver Elphick wrote... > >"Stan Brown" wrote: > >I just really messed up! > > > >I have a "stable" machine, and i had installed all the PostgreSQL related pa > >ckages > >from the stable archive, and all was well. > > > >Then I downloaded all the PostgreSQL 7.1 RC1 packages from > >http://people.debian.org/~elphick/postgresql/, put them in a directory all t > >o > >themselves, did a cd to this directory, and di "dpkg -i *". > > > >This did not go well! I got all sorts of errors, and now when I go into dsel > >ct, I > >find I'm in dependency H**L. > > > >First, whay did I do wrong? > >You got the packages built for unstable; if you look more closely in that >URL you will also find packages for potato. > > >Second, how can I recover from this mess? > >Replace those packages with potato ones. >
This hole seems to get deeper the more i struggle. Here is where I am now. I added: deb http://www.samfundet.no/~tfheen/debian potato main To /etc/apt-get/sources, and rern dselect. Then I tried selecting the new packages. dselect told me it wanted to remove perl-base! It also said, corectly, that this was a BAD THING (tm) which is certainly correct! So I dselect _all_ postgress related packages (hey I can rbuild my db's there small0. Now it wants to remove 208 packages, including such things as th xserver! Hw can I get out of this mess? Is there some way that I can just tell dseelct that I _want_ what's presently installed? HELP! -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.