Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1
Hi Brian, Hi Maurits, Hi Kent, Hi Paolo, I will try the commands you recommended as soon as I have time to work on the system. Thanks for the directions. I will post the results here. I am also reading the document suggested by Maurits. thanks Luiz Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: Just used aptitude update aptitude dist-upgrade to upgrade from the unstable archive. Worked like a charm without any hitches. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1
Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: Don't use dselect for distribution upgrades. Use apt-get directly, e.g. apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade As others have pointed out already, this isn't recommended by the release notes either. The suggested upgrade path is to use the version of aptitude from Sarge: http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.html as aptitude is smarter about dependencies than apt-get. (It also has the nice feature of remembering which packages were installed only in order to fulfill dependencies.) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1
Hi all, I used dselect in order to upgrade from version 3.0 to 3.1. I let dselect do it by its own: 956 new upgrade packages were download but when it tries to install them many errors appear specially about libc6 C++ and also errors about broken unpacking. I still can log in to the old 3.0 fortunatelly. I would appreciate any help in how to solve these issues. many thanks in advance, Luiz Emediato PS: My Debian 3.0 was working dandy prior to the upgrade to 3.1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:47:44AM -0300, Luiz Regis Emediato wrote: I used dselect in order to upgrade from version 3.0 to 3.1. I let dselect do it by its own: 956 new upgrade packages were download but when it tries to install them many errors appear specially about libc6 C++ and also errors about broken unpacking. I still can log in to the old 3.0 fortunatelly. I would appreciate any help in how to solve these issues. I enjoy dselect, but it seems unfit to handle the transition from woody to sarge on its own. apt-get and the aptitude that ships with woody aren't even up to the task. Reading the release notes is highly recommended: http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.html One of the points it mentions is: Upgrade tests have shown that sarge's version of aptitude is better at solving the complex dependencies during an upgrade than either apt-get or woody's aptitude. It should therefore be upgraded first using: # aptitude install aptitude So I suggest following this advice (and reading the rest of the release notes). Make backups if you haven't already. And you may want to wait for a few other answers of course. :) HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. - Winston Churchill signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1
Luiz Regis Emediato wrote: I used dselect in order to upgrade from version 3.0 to 3.1. I let dselect do it by its own: 956 new upgrade packages were download but when it tries to install them many errors appear specially about libc6 C++ and also errors about broken unpacking. I still can log in to the old 3.0 fortunatelly. I believe the recommended method is to use aptitude rather than dselect: aptitude update aptitude dist-upgrade -- Kent West Technology Support /A/bilene /C/hristian /U/niversity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1
Hi Luiz, I had similar trouble. This is what I ended up doing based on the advice of others in this list. apt-get autoclean; this will clean up your cache directory, good thing to do every once in a while but no required. apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade Thanks go to Roberto C. Sanchez for this. I ran into this error: Removing xserver-rage128 ... sed: can't read /etc/X11/Xserver: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing xserver-rage128 (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: xserver-rage128 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) And this solution worked for that I would suggest the command touch /etc/X11/Xserver (to create this file, thus fooling the remove script into doing what it wants), followed by a repeat of apt-get dist-upgrade -f. Thanks goto Kent West After that everthing started working find. Hope this helps, Brian On 6/15/05, Luiz Regis Emediato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I used dselect in order to upgrade from version 3.0 to 3.1. I let dselect do it by its own: 956 new upgrade packages were download but when it tries to install them many errors appear specially about libc6 C++ and also errors about broken unpacking. I still can log in to the old 3.0 fortunatelly. I would appreciate any help in how to solve these issues. many thanks in advance, Luiz Emediato PS: My Debian 3.0 was working dandy prior to the upgrade to 3.1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1
Hi all, I used dselect in order to upgrade from version 3.0 to 3.1. I let dselect do it by its own: 956 new upgrade packages were download but when it tries to install them many errors appear specially about libc6 C++ and also errors about broken unpacking. I still can log in to the old 3.0 fortunatelly. I would appreciate any help in how to solve these issues. many thanks in advance, Luiz Emediato PS: My Debian 3.0 was working dandy prior to the upgrade to 3.1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1
Just used aptitude update aptitude dist-upgrade to upgrade from the unstable archive. Worked like a charm without any hitches. Brian
Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1
On 6/15/05, Luiz Emediato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I used dselect in order to upgrade from version 3.0 to 3.1. I let dselect do it by its own: 956 new upgrade packages were download but when it tries to install them many errors appear specially about libc6 C++ and also errors about broken unpacking. I still can log in to the old 3.0 fortunatelly. I would appreciate any help in how to solve these issues. many thanks in advance, Luiz Emediato PS: My Debian 3.0 was working dandy prior to the upgrade to 3.1. Don't use dselect for distribution upgrades. Use apt-get directly, e.g. apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
