On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Richard Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Thanks for your reply and for the link. I tried to follow the procedure > given in > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ > > But I guess I didn't follow it closely enough. Perhaps the easiest thing to > do now is to download an iso file, burn it to a DVD and boot from that. > > Robin
That may be the easiest thing to do, depending on how much you have customized your system. >From here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html Did you follow the step: "4.5.4. Upgrade apt and/or aptitude first" And run: (depending on if you have aptitude installed or not # apt-get install apt or: # aptitude install aptitude This step is very important, as it upgrades libc6 for your system as well as the package manager. The old version of apt is not sufficient to do the upgrade: "Several bug reports have shown that the versions of the aptitude and apt packages in etch are often unable to handle the upgrade to lenny." -Mark C. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
