Hi,
Just do this. It should work. It's worked for a number of people
that I have helped with the same problem on IRC at irc.openprojects.net
in #debian. If you visit there, come and say hi to me :-). My nick is
longshot.
cd /var/cahce/apt/archives
dpkg -i
Thank you. This helped.
I've now been able to do
apt-get dist-upgrade
followed by
apt-get -f install
several times. Each time, it gets through a handful (20-30?) packages before
it bombs and I have to run the forced install.
I'm down to about a hundred packages
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 01:41:55AM -0400 or thereabouts, James Lindenschmidt
wrote:
Now what? I used to have Ximian GNOME 1.4 installed, but I want to switch to
getting GNOME from woody.
You should probably try to remove ximian, as ximian and woody don't mix (yet).
If you force remove the
Greetings, everyone.
Thanks to previous advice I was able to initiate the apt-get dist-upgrade (I
got my sources.list configured properly), but I am still getting errors. It
downloaded several hundred packages, but I got the following error messages
when it came time to install:
Does your sources.list include non-us? The crypto stuff (including libssl) is
hosted on server outside of the US for legal reasons.
So, you may need to add a line like this:
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib
non-free
Nathan
On Sunday 19 August 2001 09:57
I added the line below, and it had no effect. Same error after
apt-get update
and
apt-get dist-upgrade
Thanks,
Jim
Nathan Weston Spoke Thusly:
Does your sources.list include non-us? The crypto stuff (including libssl)
is hosted on server outside of the US for legal
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:06:55PM -0400 or thereabouts, James Lindenschmidt
wrote:
apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages have
Thanks muchly! I'm giving it a try now...
James D Strandboge Spoke Thusly:
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:06:55PM -0400 or thereabouts, James
Lindenschmidt wrote:
apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You
OK, after changing my sources.list file to what you have below, I did
apt-get clean
apt-get autoclean
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade, and when I got the error messages, I did
apt-get -f install.
It downloaded more packages, but as soon as the
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