On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:16:00 +0000 (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyhow, I've got my aptitude working again, and I'm profoundly > grateful for the help you and others gave me. The essential problem > was having "stable" instead of "sarge" in my sources.list. Sometime > or other, I will be upgrading - maybe to lenny when it comes out > rather than etch.
Glad to hear you got aptitude working again. When I first tried to upgrade from Sarge to Etch (when Etch was still testing), it was a failure, because the change between the two was too great. So, I ended up destroying my system. Perhaps if I had waited until Etch was stable before upgrading from Sarge to Etch, it may have been smoother. I briefly used PCLinuxOS, and then, once Etch was stable, went back to Debian with a new install of it (over PCLOS). Anyway, from my experience, I feel doing such a drastic upgrade may not be smooth. So, I recommend doing a thorough backup first if you attempt an upgrade from Sarge to Lenny. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]