Re: Upgrade Path From Potato :-(
On 06/08/01 17:02:57 -0700, Jeremiah H. Savage wrote: From my experience of upgrading from Potato, I've found it's best to do a couple of 'apt-get install [foo]' before doing the whole 'dist-upgrade.' The first foo I install is 'dpkg' (fewer segfaults later on that way), then 'apt'. Upgrading these two packages will also force a 'libc6' upgrade. Then you want to make sure 'perl5.6' is installed. After that, I usually go for the full upgrade. Thanks for the tips. I decided to just reinstall and follow your advice. I figured it would be the least painless thing to do, plus I would feel more secure knowing that everything was in order from the start. So far so good. I'm now ready to install X. Here's a question. What's the better release to move to, woody or sid? depends on how much excitment you want in your debian experience:) LOL Thanks again for your help. Mark
Upgrade Path From Potato :-(
Hi all, I'm not sure if I've screwed up here, but I decided to upgrade from potato to woody last night, but now I can't seem to get X reconfigured. Looking at dselect, it looks as if I have packages from both 3.3 and 4.0 versions of X installed. This can't be good, right? I'm not sure what exactly happened. All I did was change the potato references in my sources.lst file to woody and ran apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade. I had to repeat this process a couple times with an apt-get -f install thrown in every once is a while to get all the dependencies worked out, but now I'm left scratching my head. Can I fix this by unintalling all X related packages and then just choosing a version and stick with it? Or am I better off just reinstalling from scratch and then upgrading to sid or just plain waiting until something more stable solidifies? Here's a question. What's the better release to move to, woody or sid? Thanks for the advice. Mark
Re: Upgrade Path From Potato :-(
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 04:25:56PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: I'm not sure if I've screwed up here, but I decided to upgrade from potato to woody last night, but now I can't seem to get X reconfigured. Looking at dselect, it looks as if I have packages from both 3.3 and 4.0 versions of X installed. This can't be good, right? I'm not sure what exactly happened. All I did was change the potato references in my sources.lst file to woody and ran apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade. I had to repeat this process a couple times with an apt-get -f install thrown in every once is a while to get all the dependencies worked out, but now I'm left scratching my head. From my experience of upgrading from Potato, I've found it's best to do a couple of 'apt-get install [foo]' before doing the whole 'dist-upgrade.' The first foo I install is 'dpkg' (fewer segfaults later on that way), then 'apt'. Upgrading these two packages will also force a 'libc6' upgrade. Then you want to make sure 'perl5.6' is installed. After that, I usually go for the full upgrade. Can I fix this by unintalling all X related packages and then just choosing a version and stick with it? Or am I better off just reinstalling from scratch and then upgrading to sid or just plain waiting until something more stable solidifies? If X4 runs, I wouldn't reinstall. If it doesn't run, try # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common and # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 If that doesn't work... maybe you should reinstall. Some X problems require arcane knowledge. But if you do a Potato reinstall, don't install X, wait until after you upgrade to wood/sid to install X4. That'll make things easier. Here's a question. What's the better release to move to, woody or sid? depends on how much excitment you want in your debian experience:) -- Jeremiah
