Re: upgrading potato to woody with 3.0pre6 CDs
I had exactly the same problem. When I ran "apt-get --simulate install
dpkg apt debconf" it showed problem packages in square brackets after
packages it was "installing". Using this information, and stumbling around
for awhile, I finally found that running "apt-get remove libdb2" began a
rather extensive upgrade process that fixed things so I could continue with
the first step of "apt-get dpkg apt debconf" as before. By the way, the
extensive upgrade process actually reinstalled libdb2 after it removed it.
Weird, huh?
Another problem I had was that the "dist-upgrade" process removed man-db
from my system. When it was all over I had no access to man pages, and I
had to reinstall man-db myself.
Mike K.
At 02:28 PM 5/23/02 +0200, Marcin Wolinski wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>I've tried to upgrade a Potato system to Woody using the 3.0pre6
>version of Debian CDs, but it failed miserably. Here is what I've
>done:
>
>I commented out all lines in /etc/apt/sources.list, then ran
>'apt-cdrom add' for the first four disks in the set. Then did
> apt-get update
>and tried to
> apt-get install dpkg apt debconf
>The program asked for the Binary-1 CD, then it was '[Working] ##%' for
>a while, and after getting to some 50% it displayed:
>
> E: Internal Error, Could not configure a pre-depend
>
>and stopped. Running 'apt-get dist-upgrade' gives the same result.
>Versions of packages on my system: dpkg 1.6.14, apt 0.3.19, debconf
>0.2.80.16. Linux 2.2.17.
>
>I tried the same procedure on a second potato box with the result:
>
> E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration
>
>
>How to cope with this situation?
>Is it possible to get more info on what actually went wrong?
>
>Is this a bug in apt/dpkg or in package descriptions on the CDs (or
>both) (or am I doing sth wrong?)?
>
>Best regards,
>Marcin
>
>
>
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