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!
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originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit
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