On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Stephen Dewey <stepheneliotde...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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... >
Also, I should ask, is it ok to install the new kernel version while I still have the incomplete dist-upgrade with the "75 not fully installed or removed" packages? Thanks for your help, I have been looking at the manuals for a while but I am still a bit lost here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
