Re: cannot upgrade woody

[Federico Di Gregorio <fog@mixadlive.com>]

Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Giuseppe Sacco's letter:

> After downloading them I get this error during installation of debconf. Then a
> lot of packages are blocked because they depend on debconf. When I try to
> configure it 'by hand' using dpkg I get the same error:

dpkg --force-depends --purge debconf
apt-get install debconf

solves the problem. but don't ask me why...

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Federico Di Gregorio
MIXAD LIVE System Programmer                           fog@mixadlive.com
Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact        fog@debian.org
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