dpkg problems...
Sorry to bother, but I'm a fairly new user and have dug myself into a
hole and my searches of the Debian lists haven't turned up what I'm
needing.
Recently did an install of Woody on a Pismo, things have been fine.
Added the Debian testing distributions to my sources.list. Got a
zillion things to upgrade, which I started in on.
deselect warned me about quitting xdm when it started to install glibc
(I think that was the name). I quit and tried to stop xdm. Eventually
figured that out.
Re-ran dselect to return to the install process, but it stopped again on
the xfs install, which (if I remember) said it was broken. I accepted
the choice to continue.
dselect eventually gave up, saying that dpkg-preconfigure didn't exist,
which was true.
I now have dselect telling me that I've got 37 packages to upgrade, but
nothing happens. The upgrade clearly isn't complete, as I can type "man
dpkg-preconfigure" and it can't find man.
So:
What's the easiest way to get out of my trouble? Can I get back to a
stable distro or throw out a package database and start over?
Any info greatly appreciated, and thanks to all that have made LinucPPC
so great!
Best,
Charles Turner
<vze26m98@optonline.net>
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