Bug#24923: apt: various dependencies and errors

[Tomas Pospisek <tpo@spin.ch>]

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> 
> > I have started to upgrade using apt_0.1.1pre3_i386.deb on a bo system with
> > libc6.
> > 
> > Then I did "apt-get upgrade; apt-get dist-upgrade". The whole process
> > stopped after doing (I think) most of the work with:
> 
> Erm, you should just use dist-upgrade, not upgrade before hand. It
> shouldn't matter so much

I've followed the FAQ: http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/deb/ - it's in there,
maybe the maintainer should change it there - I've Cc'd: Brandon Mitchell
<bhmit1@mail.wm.edu>.

> > The next dselect gave me:
> > 
> >  fetty# dselect
> >  ERROR
> >  ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/frozen/non-US/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> >    Need package libmd5-perl
> >  ERROR
> >  ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/linux/distributions/debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> >    Need package libmd5-perl
> > 
> > So I had to download libmd5-perl manually and install with dpkg (well yes, I
> > didn't read all apt manuals...)
> 
> Which say if you want to use FTP you must have those packages. If you want
> to use HTTP you don't need them. That is why the are only suggested. The
> new APT (0.1.3) does not need them at all.

I'd expect a WARNING instead of an ERROR...

> If you have apache-ssl installed, remove it and install it again after
> apache-common (?) that sometimes fixes it for other people.

I've had a different, pretty bad problem with apache-ssl that shot down
our web server, which I have reported and which I have yet to analyse...

Thanks for the reply!
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