Re: dselect removed everything
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Tonight I was upgrading a buzz machine to bo. I first mounted
> the CD and run "dpkg -iGROBE *" which was ok except that of course
> it didn't install new packages like base-files/base-passwd to replace
> base, or the deps etc. So after that I ran dselect, went through
> all the steps, and when I got to remove, it started to remove almost
> everything! All the standard packages, all the essential packages etc.
> This really hosed the system. Why would it do this? It did it on another
> machine once too.
>
> I just reinstalled it with bo, since it was only a test machine anyway.
A buzz -> bo upgrade requires you to upgrade dpkg first. The sequence is
dpkg --clear-available
dpkg -i ldso_*.deb
dpkg -i libc5_*.deb
dpkg -i dpkg_*.deb dpkg-ftp_*.deb
dpkg --purge --force-depends texbin
I guess most of us have virtually forgotten all that stuff as we upgraded
so long ago.
Cheers,
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