Re: Woody upgrade page could mention apt-utils
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 15:48, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:42:09AM +0100, Tim Baverstock wrote:
> > I had problems with a missing apt-utils package. Should that be added to
> > the command you suggest running before the dist-upgrade:?
> >
> > apt-get install dpkg apt debconf
>
> Er, how does not having apt-utils affect the upgrade? I did several
> upgrades without that thing and everything is working just fine.
I kept seeing the message
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
while using apt. Once I installed it with dpkg, the message went away.
I'm not experienced with this stuff, so if it sounds fishy, I'm probably in
error, but I had some problems with pre-Woody KDE and Mesa packages, which
seemed to choke apt completing the majority of packages. Running dpkg
--configure --pending sorted out those packages, and once I'd installed
apt-utils with dpkg, when I jiggled the KDE and mesa libraries, they were
fully configured without my having to resort to dpkg.
I have a transcript if you're particularly interested (it's not very
exciting).
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