[NBLUG/talk] dist-upgrade

[Robert Hayes]

No, you haven't freaked me out. Thanks.

In fact, I'm back up and running now.

I posted what I did in a different thread: 

The dist-upgrade seems to have worked.
There were some issues that needed to be handled manually midstream by using 
dpkg --force-all -i packagename
on several different packages.

There are 11 packages that did not install properly, but they are none that I 
use (latex, wvdial, etc.) so I will remove them in time.

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So far so good.

Thanks again.

On Thursday 10 August 2006 19:18, William Tracy wrote:
> What version are you upgrading from?
>
> I think I remember seeing that when I tried to upgrade from an old
> Sarge/testing disc straight to Etch. I was able to get around it by
> changing sources.list to point at Sarge (stable), running apt-get
> update && apt-get dist-upgrade, then changing sources.list to point at
> testing, and running apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade again.
>
> The upgrade to xorg is mostly painless now, but I seem to remember
> that that install had some config files so old that the xorg installer
> couldn't tell what to do with them. Once you're at at least the latest
> stable, I'd try running dpkg-reconfigure on all the xserver/xfree86
> packages to get a fresh X configuration before installing xorg. (In my
> case, I just went ahead and burned a new Etch disc and reinstalled
> from scratch, but I assume that you'd rather not do that.)
>
> I hope that I haven't freaked you out now. :-)
>
> William
>
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