Re: Attempted upgrade
I will try again later today, but this time I will use my no.2 system. It
is not as vital as this one, no.1. I will use apt and dpkg as installed.
Phil.
On Sat, 27 May 2000, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
>
> [I read debian-cd, no need to Cc: me ;-)]
>
> On Sat, 27 May 2000, Philip Charles wrote:
>
> > I have just finished repairing my system after testing the upgrade system
> > as one would expect it would be done by someone using CDs for this
> > purpose.
> [...]
>
> Thanks a lot! The problem (at least, I think...) was that update-alternatives
> (which is in the static dpkg package) was a /usr/local/bin/perl (!!!) script.
> I don't know how this could have happened (didn't compile myself), but
> Raphaels version which is now in upgrade-i386/ does just have /usr/bin/perl,
> as it should be. Same for install-info.
>
> So, you may try again with the "new" dpkg package; this shouldn't break. (At
> least, not on those points ;-)
>
>
> Regards,
> Anne Bezemer
>
>
>
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