Hello, I thought I should make my experiences available to those that might be interested. It was a not-very complete potato install, that I wanted to upgrade to woody. I had potato CD's, and woody ftp sources in the sources.list. apt-get upgrade complained about libdb.so.3 not being available. On my own unstable machine I saw this was in the libdb2 package. I ended up downloading this package with ftp and installing it with dpkg -i. This should probably be smoother when woody is released? (Here is the error messages I got when trying to install packages with apt-get: perl: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (127) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt ) Another rather confusing thing I noticed was due to the X3->X4 upgrade not going as smooth as one would hope. Specifically, after the upgrade, startx was no longer available, as xbase-clients wasn't installed with the upgrade. I don't know what the solution would be, it is nice that one can do a "partial" X installation (with only the very necessary packages) but this is going to be confusing. Oh, the exim upgrade didn't work - it didn't create the /etc/exim directory before trying to move the config file. I'll check the BTS and submit a report if this isn't reported yet. Still being a fan of dselect (Is there another way to get a nice list of all the new packages available? - and I like the control dselect gives the user over dependency resolution...), this is the first time I've really tried such an upgrade with "apt-get dist-upgrade". The man page claims apt-get upgrade does not change any package's "Install Status". I don't quite understand all the extra things dist-upgrade is supposed to do. (Upgrades more important packages at expense of less important ones, this means it will additionally upgrade the more important ones even if it means removing the less important ones - what about actually installing new packages? IIRC there were a lot of packages that it didn't upgrade at all - so I went back to the trusty dselect...) Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe ps. I'll appreciate a CC (as Mail-Followup-To: should say), as my mailbox cannot handle debian-devel. -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D76D 6071 5698
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