Tudor Oprea wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've been trying for several days now to get my Stormix install into the
> XFree 4 / kernel 2.4 / simian gnome era, with varying degrees of
> success. The kernel compile/upgrade was the most painless, after removing
> the
> initrd=... line from the primary linux entry in lilo.conf . Upgrading X
> was also a nightmare, but I guess it eventually worked. The latest
> version of Simian Gnome? I don't want to talk about it.
>
> My question is, isn't this the entire point of apt-get dist-upgrade? If I
> change my sources.list to have only unstable mirrors, and then do a
> dist-upgrade, and this on a freshly-installed Hail distro, shouldn't it at
> least have a small chance of working properly? Has anyone managed to use
> apt-get dist-upgrade sucessfully with Hail?
The point is to use stable sources.You just can't complain that apt-get
doesn't work properly while you're installing Unstable software marked
as such and
software outside Debian which anyway was compiled against the unstable
tree.
Unstable-the development distro where things are_expected to break and
not work properly.
If you're new to Debian and not used to dpkg --force you really
shouldn't use
unstable.
Try to reinstall hail and use apt-get only to install packages from
hail or
to dist-upgrade from hail 2.04 to hail 2.06 and you won't have any
problems.
It doesn't matter how experienced you are with Linux in general,if you
don't know the specifics of a certain distro you'll get bitten.
> After the weekend I've had, going back to Slackware is looking more and
> more appealing.
Not fair-see above .
> Tudor
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