Hi! I am currently installing potato on a slink machine. The machine is at least 10000 kilometers away from me and I am doing this over ssh.
The machine is mainly used for mail server(qmail). There is wu-ftp installed, ssh1, telnet, pop3. It is 486 with 32 MB RAM, no keyboard and no monitor, ne200-pci network card. I am reading http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/potato/upgrade-i386/UPGRADING.html I installed the static dpkg and apt from there. Problems/questions 1. libpam0g was making some troubles. I had to put in /etc/apt/apt.conf the line APT::Force-LoopBreak "true"; to be able to start the dist-upgrade. First I downloded all debs with apt-get -f -u -d dist-upgrade But after that, during apt-get -f -u dist-upgrade, I got the message about libpam0g and after inserting the line in apt.conf, the installation started. No other pam problems till now. Actually the message was, that this is probably a Grave Bug, but it is possible I did something wrong. You still may want to check about libpam0g. I will not file a bug, because I am not sure what was the reason. 2. Both perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 were installed and when perl-5.005 was installing I got the message, that libdb2 is using new format, but I have 1.85 and I have to convert the formats. It is not clear to me, can I remove perl-5.004? I have the impression, that Debian is a clever distro and takes care about such things. I think some more info is needed during the instalation about this perl things. 3. This may be a real problem: Preparing to replace ssh 1.2.26-1.2 (using .../ssh_1%3a1.2.3-3_i386.deb) ... Stopping Secure Shell server: sshd. Can't locate Data/Dumper.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.004/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.004 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 .) at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb.pm line 218. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb.pm line 218. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 9. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a1.2.3-3_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 I solved it by installing ssh-nonfree, but it is interesting to note, this: Selecting previously deselected package ssh-nonfree. Unpacking ssh-nonfree (from .../ssh-nonfree_1.2.27-6_i386.deb) ... Setting up perl-5.005-base (5.005.03-7.1) ... Setting up perl-5.005 (5.005.03-7.1) ... Setting up perl-5.004 (5.004.05-6) ... Setting up libnet-perl (1.0703-3) ... The setting of perl packages is done AFTER ssh upgrade was attempted. Maybe this is the reason why openssh install failed?!!!!!!! Now rebooting... :-| It is OK... :)) --JS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
