Re: potato->woody upgrade problems (mostly fixed)
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 10:26:12PM -0500, John Dalbec wrote:
> apt-get dist-upgrade died while configuring gcc-doc with the message
> perl: libc6: version GLIBC_2.2 not found - needed by libdb.so.3.
> attempting 'apt-get -f install' failed with the same message.
> I installed libc6 from /var/cache/apt using dpkg and 'apt-get -f
> install' worked again.
Just to avoid this type of problem, I always install woody version of
apt by:
# apt-get install apt
first, before doing real massive "dist-upgrade". It pulls glibc 2.2 and
new perl and libdb.so... But no large X programs.
> I set up my system with a 1G / partition. Apparently this is not
> sufficient for a successful dist-upgrade. I now have to re-download
> 300M because I had to do an 'apt-get clean' when I ran out of space.
> Can /var/cache/apt/archives be a symlink?
I think so too. I even saw few previous posting mounting
/var/cache/apt/archives from different machine by NFS.
> Installing konsole failed because it shared its 16x16 icon file with
> (the old version of) kdebase. A dpkg -i --force-overwrite got it
> installed (but not configured) and 'apt-get -f install' cleaned up
> afterwards.
"testing" sometimes has broken dependency which requires packages from
"unstable". Read "man apt_preferences" once you install woody version of
apt.
...
> Debconf really really needs a 'back' button, not just dpkg-reconfigure.
> Which package do I reconfigure to fix my monitor settings? Aha,
> xserver-svga is it. Hmm, that should have been replaced by
> xserver-xfree86 in the woody upgrade, no?
File a wishlist bug report (may be there already :)
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