Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Johannes Wiedersich
<johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:
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> Stephen Dewey wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>>>> I am having trouble with the libfaac0 package, and have been hoping to
>>>> upgrade it the hope that a bug fix has been released for my problem.
>>>> The libfaac0 package requires libc6 >= 2.7-1 but etch only has
>>>> 2.3.6.ds1-13etch8, so I've added a testing distribution to my sources
>>>> list.
>>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>> Sure. Don't mix Stable and Testing. This close to Stable becoming
>>> Oldstable, Etch and Lenny have very different dependencies.
>>>
>>
>> Ok. I am OK with moving to Lenny. Would it then be OK for me to simply
>> upgrade to Lenny via the below?
>>
>> apt-get update
>> apt-get -t stable upgrade
>> apt-get -t stable dist-upgrade
>> apt-get -t testing upgrade
>> apt-get -t testing dist-upgrade
>>
>> (I am getting this from
>> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html - I
>
> That seems to have been the prefered way of upgrading from potato to
> woody. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (a.k.a. woody) was released on 19th of July,
> *2002*.
>
> I followed the recommendations for lenny from
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/10/msg00000.html
> and it worked for me without problems.
>
Ok. Yeah I guess I should have done things a bit differently. Given
that I started a different way, switching sources to Lenny and running
an upgrade then a dist-upgrade that left "75 not fully installed or
removed" packages, do you have any idea how I should dig myself out of
this mess? I am tempted to simply install the new kernel as suggested
(apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686) and then run apt-get
dist-upgrade again to finish the process once that dependency is
resolved, but I am worried about making things worse.
Also I am still not sure about the significance of the "not fully
installed or removed" programs.
As for aptitude, I could use that but I am not sure if it would be
good to switch tools in the middle of my upgrade effort...
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