On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Johannes Wiedersich <johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Stephen Dewey wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote: >>>> I am having trouble with the libfaac0 package, and have been hoping to >>>> upgrade it the hope that a bug fix has been released for my problem. >>>> The libfaac0 package requires libc6 >= 2.7-1 but etch only has >>>> 2.3.6.ds1-13etch8, so I've added a testing distribution to my sources >>>> list. >>>> >>> [snip] >>>> >>>> Any ideas? >>> Sure. Don't mix Stable and Testing. This close to Stable becoming >>> Oldstable, Etch and Lenny have very different dependencies. >>> >> >> Ok. I am OK with moving to Lenny. Would it then be OK for me to simply >> upgrade to Lenny via the below? >> >> apt-get update >> apt-get -t stable upgrade >> apt-get -t stable dist-upgrade >> apt-get -t testing upgrade >> apt-get -t testing dist-upgrade >> >> (I am getting this from >> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html - I > > That seems to have been the prefered way of upgrading from potato to > woody. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (a.k.a. woody) was released on 19th of July, > *2002*. > > I followed the recommendations for lenny from > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/10/msg00000.html > and it worked for me without problems. >
Ok. Yeah I guess I should have done things a bit differently. Given that I started a different way, switching sources to Lenny and running an upgrade then a dist-upgrade that left "75 not fully installed or removed" packages, do you have any idea how I should dig myself out of this mess? I am tempted to simply install the new kernel as suggested (apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686) and then run apt-get dist-upgrade again to finish the process once that dependency is resolved, but I am worried about making things worse. Also I am still not sure about the significance of the "not fully installed or removed" programs. As for aptitude, I could use that but I am not sure if it would be good to switch tools in the middle of my upgrade effort... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
