Disclaimer: Post from blatant newbie. I tried der.hans' advice to add the two lines to /etc/apt/sources.list for woody (these exactly match the woody page on www.debian.org, BTW)
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free and then per his suggestion, did the following: > Do an "apt-get update", then an "apt-get install apt"... This seems to have failed. See below for what appeared in my terminal, suggestions as to how to proceed very much appreciated--I'd like to either revert to how things were before, or finish this installation without totally bonking the system. Side topic: My motivation for upgrading from potato is that I need to learn java, would prefer to do it on Linux. I'm having trouble installing a java SDK that supports the examples in O'Reilly's Nutshell book I'm also having the usual trouble getting java applets to run on potato's version of Mozilla. I downloaded mozilla 0.9.2, but it won't run because it can't find the shared library: 'libc6++.so.u.think.u.can.run.linux'. I downloaded the Sun Java SDK, javac won't run either, basically says the same thing. I *think* I know that this error means that the program is looking for a symbolic link to the libc shared library, can someone confirm this and/or explain how to resolve these issues? Thanks, Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Backup? MacDonald's is always hiring aren't they? Apt error output from terminal: dog:~# apt-get install apt Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: binutils cpp cpp-2.95 g++ g++-2.95 gcc gcc-2.95 gobjc gobjc-2.95 libc6 libc6-dev libdb2 libdb2-util libstdc++2.10-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 locales The following NEW packages will be installed: cpp-2.95 g++-2.95 gcc-2.95 gobjc-2.95 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 12 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 313 not upgraded. Need to get 14.0MB of archives. After unpacking 3267kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main libdb2 2:2.7.7-8 [273kB] Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main libc6 2.2.3-5 [3206kB] Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010424 [126kB] Get:4 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main apt 0.5.3 [591kB] Get:5 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main binutils 2.11.90.0.7-2 [1198kB] Get:6 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main cpp 1:2.95.3-7 [2526B] Get:7 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main cpp-2.95 1:2.95.4-0.010424 [114kB] Get:8 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main g++ 1:2.95.3-7 [1256B] Get:9 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main g++-2.95 1:2.95.4-0.010424 [1018kB]Get:10 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main gcc 1:2.95.3-7 [3276B] Get:11 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main gcc-2.95 1:2.95.4-0.010424 [940kB]Get:12 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main libstdc++2.10-dev 1:2.95.4-0.010424 [299kB] Get:13 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main libc6-dev 2.2.3-5 [2292kB] Get:14 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main locales 2.2.3-5 [2949kB] Get:15 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main gobjc 1:2.95.3-7 [1082B] Get:16 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main gobjc-2.95 1:2.95.4-0.010424 [850kB] Get:17 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main libdb2-util 2:2.7.7-8 [107kB] Fetched 14.0MB in 43s (320kB/s) (Reading database ... 41000 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libdb2-util 2:2.4.14-2.7.7.1.c (using .../libdb2-util_2%3a2.7.7-8_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libdb2-util ... Preparing to replace libdb2 2:2.4.14-2.7.7.1.c (using .../libdb2_2%3a2.7.7-8_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libdb2 ... Replacing files in old package libc6 ... Preparing to replace locales 2.1.3-18 (using .../locales_2.2.3-5_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement locales ... Preparing to replace cpp 1:2.95.2-13 (using .../cpp_1%3a2.95.3-7_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement cpp ... Selecting previously deselected package cpp-2.95. Unpacking cpp-2.95 (from .../cpp-2.95_1%3a2.95.4-0.010424_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package gobjc-2.95. Unpacking gobjc-2.95 (from .../gobjc-2.95_1%3a2.95.4-0.010424_i386.deb) ... Preparing to replace gobjc 1:2.95.2-13 (using .../gobjc_1%3a2.95.3-7_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gobjc ... Preparing to replace gcc 1:2.95.2-13 (using .../gcc_1%3a2.95.3-7_i386.deb) ... Removing old gcc doc directory. Unpacking replacement gcc ... Preparing to replace binutils 2.9.5.0.37-1 (using .../binutils_2.11.90.0.7-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement binutils ... Selecting previously deselected package gcc-2.95. Unpacking gcc-2.95 (from .../gcc-2.95_1%3a2.95.4-0.010424_i386.deb) ... Preparing to replace g++ 1:2.95.2-13 (using .../g++_1%3a2.95.3-7_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement g++ ... Selecting previously deselected package g++-2.95. Unpacking g++-2.95 (from .../g++-2.95_1%3a2.95.4-0.010424_i386.deb) ... Preparing to replace libstdc++2.10-dev 1:2.95.2-13 (using .../libstdc++2.10-dev_1%3a2.95.4-0.010424_i386.deb) ... perl: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.2' not found (required by /lib/libdb.so.3) dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... perl: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.2' not found (required by /lib/libdb.so.3) dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libstdc++2.10-dev_1%3a2.95.4-0.010424_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: regarding .../libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb containing libc6-dev: libc6-dev conflicts with libstdc++2.10-dev (<< 1:2.95.2-15) libstdc++2.10-dev (version 1:2.95.2-13) is installed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb (--unpack): conflicting packages - not installing libc6-dev Preparing to replace libc6 2.1.3-18 (using .../libc6_2.2.3-5_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6 ... Replacing files in old package ldso ... Replacing files in old package netbase ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libstdc++2.10-dev_1%3a2.95.4-0.010424_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) dog:~#