On (14/02/05 12:48), vze26m98 wrote: > Sorry to bother, but I'm a fairly new user and have dug myself into a > hole and my searches of the Debian lists haven't turned up what I'm > needing. > > Recently did an install of Woody on a Pismo, things have been fine. > > Added the Debian testing distributions to my sources.list. Got a > zillion things to upgrade, which I started in on. > > deselect warned me about quitting xdm when it started to install glibc > (I think that was the name). I quit and tried to stop xdm. Eventually > figured that out. > > Re-ran dselect to return to the install process, but it stopped again on > the xfs install, which (if I remember) said it was broken. I accepted > the choice to continue. > > dselect eventually gave up, saying that dpkg-preconfigure didn't exist, > which was true. > > I now have dselect telling me that I've got 37 packages to upgrade, but > nothing happens. The upgrade clearly isn't complete, as I can type "man > dpkg-preconfigure" and it can't find man. > > So: > > What's the easiest way to get out of my trouble? Can I get back to a > stable distro or throw out a package database and start over? > > Any info greatly appreciated, and thanks to all that have made LinucPPC > so great! You could try as root or sudo: apt-get update apt-get upgrade
FWIW I use aptitude (others stick to dselect) - I've had no problems maintaining and upgrading woody, sarge and sid installations. Which ever, method you switch to, it's best to stick with it. Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
