On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 01:31:47PM -0400, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: > >Brandon Kuczenski said: > >>Last night I was brave and attempted an apt-get dist-upgrade before I went > >>to sleep. When I woke up this morning, the program had exited on an > >>error. > >>The error was in installing udev_0.068-2_i386.deb -- it complained that it > >>needed a kernel >= 2.6.12 to install, and promptly quit. I assume that > >>the specified kernel is part of the dist-upgrade, but I cannot find a > >>kernel-image-2.6.1[2-9] debfile in my /var/cache/apt/archive directory. > >new kernels are part of the linux-image package, that should take care of > >things. > >however udev requires that 2.6.12 is running to install > Okay -- so I need just a little apt-get help. How do I get apt-get to > ignore the broken dependencies long enough to download and install > linux-image-2.6.12-.....? Right now, every time I use apt-get to do > something, it tells me that dependencies are broken and advises running > 'apt-get -f install', which fails. Add sarge back to your sources.list and run apt-get install udev/stable to downgrade udev. Then install the linux-image package of choice. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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