On Wed, 7 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Afternoon all > > I am fiddling with my second Debian install. > > I thought I would try unstable on my portable. Following various > instructions found by searching Debian.org & Google I did the following: > > 1. install stable from cd (base only) > 2. change sources.list to point at unstable sources at mirror.aarnet etc > 3. run apt-get update > 4. run apt-get -d dist-upgrade > 5. run apt-get -u -f --simulate dist-upgrade (All looked OK at this point) > 6. run apt-get -u -f dist-upgrade > > Apt reports "problems" with a number of packages at the end of this process > including ifupdown, netkit-inetd, netbase, exim, mailx, setserial, adduser, > & ppp. > Lots of things seem to be broken & I can't see why. Many of the rc.2 > scripts seem to be missing. I can't get eth0 to go. Modules weren't being > loaded but do if I execute the script in init.d manually. Exim complians > it has no configuration file (although there does seem to be one) etc, etc. > > Could someone suggest whay I have done wrong or what I should try. I > thought Debian would handle the upgrade a little more elegantly. Well, it's called unstable for a reason, and often there can be problems that impact during the upgrade. At the moment, a lot of people are finding that perl is getting removed/ignored during the upgrade, and some have fixed that by just doing: apt-get install perl-5.6-base perl-5.6 also, I often find that there are conflicts relating to files that are supposed to be there from the previous version but are not, careful use of: dpkg -i --force-overwrite <name>-<version>.deb is your friend here. Beyond that, report specific errors and maybe you'll get more help. cheers, Martin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
