On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 15:47:00 +0100, Stuart Prescott wrote: > * upgrading aptitude prior to trying this out doesn't help > > * aptitude is capable of doing the right thing here with some prompting: > - say "n" at the [Y/n/q/?] prompt to get another solution; the 3rd > presented solution is to upgrade perl as well > - or, tell aptitude to install perl at the same time as the kernel: > aptitude install linux-image-`uname -r | sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'` perl > > * the release notes for squeeze currently say to use lenny's aptitude to > install the squeeze kernel. That seems to be bad advice (use apt-get instead). > That's likely to be removed from the release notes. We should have 571255 fixed in squeeze in a couple of days, which will make this step of the upgrade mostly unnecessary. And in any case if we're recommending the use of apt-get for upgrades, this step should use apt as well. Cheers, Julien
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