RE: PreDepend error in upgrading to Woody from CDs

["David Turetsky" <davidturetsky@earthlink.net>]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:08:42PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:

    After having been away from my Debian Linux system for some time, I
just
    purchased the set of 7 CDs to upgrade my system to Woody
    
    I followed the Release Notes, upgrading using dselect, and ran into
a
    PreDepend error, which aborted the upgrade
    
    I've been spending some time reading the FAQs and the Package Manual
and
    while I understand the nature of the problem, I see (thus far) no
    indication of the dependency particulars nor suggestions of a
particular
    resolution

Chris Tillman suggested:

   apt-get dist-upgrade may do a better job.


After having just tried that, DT replies:

   "E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend"

   The Release ("Chapter 3 - Upgrades from Previous Release") Notes in
3.5
   recommend against this approach. Elsewhere in the documentation, it
IS recommended

   I ran it with typescript but there is no additional information there

David subsequently pondered:

   Perhaps an initial minimal installation will resolve the problem.
I'll try that route