Potato upgrade problem

1999-12-16 Thread Nic Ferrier
When using: apt-get upgrade on the unstable distribution I get an error running the upgrade. The error is this: Syntax error at sometmpfile line 263: E: sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (2) E: failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt I don't seem to be able to

Slink - Potato upgrade problem WORKAROUND

1999-08-17 Thread Jens Carsten Hansen
Hi, all. I am a more or less experienced debian user, and I want to share this with you; I went through a few minor problems, when I recently decided that I had scr*wed up my system(Potato) and it was time for a reinstall. I reinstalled from a set of Slink CDs, and proceeded to do an apt-get

Re: Slink - Potato upgrade problem WORKAROUND

1999-08-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
Even easier work around: $ apt-get upgrade libreadline $ apt-get upgrade bash Get the readline first. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!