tom arnall wrote:
On Sunday 20 January 2008 11:46, Marty wrote:
tom arnall wrote:
> i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r
> 2.6.16.4
>
> so i did the distr-upgrade again. following is the session output. '31
> not fully installed or removed.' is where it gets interesting:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
It was doomed from the start. apt-get does not have the intelligence, as
do the apt front ends, essential for all but the most trivial upgrades. Of
those I can only vouch for personal favorite, dselect.
judging from the menu for dselect, there does not seem to be a way to do a
dist-upgrade, only install like with 'apt-get install'.
That's correct. I never explicitly upgraded from one distribution to another
with dselect. I merely pointed to the newer distribution's repository (via
sources.list) and dselect did the rest. I think dist-upgrade is an apt-get
specific thing, and I'm not exactly what it does, other than repeatedly break
users' debian systems and thus prompt frequent problem reports here.
Nevertheless if you follow through with dselect then I think it will probably
recover your system.
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