Understanding apt-get. Was Re: Help--potato upgrade flakey with apt-get/dselect

1999-09-03 Thread kaynjay
>On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I apologize up front for the length of this post, but am trying to max >> the info for brave souls who may be able to help me... >> >> An upgrade initially using apt-get then finished with deselect has >> left an unknown number of packages possibly

Re: Help--potato upgrade flakey with apt-get/dselect

1999-09-03 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I apologize up front for the length of this post, but am trying to max > the info for brave souls who may be able to help me... > > An upgrade initially using apt-get then finished with deselect has > left an unknow

Re: Help--potato upgrade flakey with apt-get/dselect

1999-09-03 Thread kaynjay
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 11:51:02PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 2) And why didn't the dist-upgrade not configure things initially? Would > > "dpkg --configure -a" be a better choice if it happened again? > > If you had noted the error messa

Re: Help--potato upgrade flakey with apt-get/dselect

1999-09-03 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2) And why didn't the dist-upgrade not configure things initially? Would > "dpkg --configure -a" be a better choice if it happened again? If you had noted the error messages you would have known that something had failed. In that instance the best t

Help--potato upgrade flakey with apt-get/dselect

1999-09-03 Thread kaynjay
I apologize up front for the length of this post, but am trying to max the info for brave souls who may be able to help me... An upgrade initially using apt-get then finished with deselect has left an unknown number of packages possibly not upgraded. Slink-->potato, BTW. The long story: (the bi