Re: apt question revisitted
Am 03. Jul, 2001 schwäzte D-Man so:
> I used 'dist-upgrade', not 'install apt', a couple weeks ago. I got
> the same sort of errors. I tried the '-f' (force) option (as suggested
Actually, -f is --fix-broken.
> by some program) and it worked. I then killed it so I could go back to
> regular uprade mode (after libc and libstdc++ were upgraded) and had no
> real trouble, except that I occasionally got a Sub-process died error. As
> suggested, run 'dpkg --reconfigure -a', then kill it because (of course)
That should be "dpkg --configure -a".
These two commands seem to fix most of the installation issues I run into
when dist-upgrading.
> the configure will fail with only some packages installed. Restart the
> dist-upgrade to continue where it left off before. Note that I may have
> been lucky in all of this to not have any disatrous side-effects, and I
> probably got some error messages along the way that I solved, and now
> don't remember.o
Not luck, rather a very good system. Hopefully soon even the two minor fixes
you brought up above will be things of the past :).
ciao,
der.hans
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