apt-get woes

Stephen Reiach yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sun Oct 6 10:55:01 2002


You may want to check your sources file and make sure you *ONLY* have the repositories for 2.3. Then 
'apt-get clean' 
'apt-get update'
'apt-get dist-upgrade'

I have done an upgrade from 2.1 to 2.3. And once you have apt-get installed in 2.1 without breaking any dependencies you should be ok.

Stephen Reiach

On Sat, 05 Oct 2002 20:00:05 -0500
Thomas Kernes <tkernes@buckwestern.com> wrote:

> Trying to do a distribution upgrade from YDL 2.1 to 2.3  (is that possible?)
> I am getting the following errors:
> 
> apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing
> Processing File Dependencies... Done
> WARNING: 'enscript' has 2 packages with same version but different
> dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug.
> WARNING: 'SDL_image' has 2 packages with same version but different
> dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug.
> WARNING: 'tmpwatch' has 2 packages with same version but different
> dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug.
> WARNING: 'xsysinfo' has 2 packages with same version but different
> dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug.
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> 
> 
> 
> Then, I get a whole bunch of broken dependencies (some relating to the above
> packages).  I thought apt-get would fix all of those.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Thomas Kernes
> tkernes@buckwestern.com
> 
> 
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