Re: Apt upgrade

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

Daniel Mashao wrote:
> 
> Has anyone been able to use the apt upgrade method to Hamm? I get all
> sorts of problems. First of all the installed system says it wants perl
> 5.004 I think. It has the following questions
>         require 5.004;
> Now my poor self is trying to reamin truly Debian and I have not seen perl
> version 5.004.
> 
> Then it complains about there not being File::stat; I guess its because
> there is no correct perl version.
> 
> Secondly using the sources.list file
> deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free
> deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-$(ARCH)/
> 
> which was the example file posted by someone on how to upgrade using apt I
> get the following error messages:
> Fetched 1420k in 0s (4282k/s)
> Updating package file cache...
> E: Opening
> /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Packages
> - ifstream::ifstream (2 No such file or directory)
> 
> Anybody knows what is going on? And where can I get the required version
> of perl short of compiling one myself.
> 


	You should start with the autoup script to start the upgrade process. 
Look in developer's corner on www.debian.org for it.  Perl 5.004 is
available as Debian packages; at least perl-base is a required package,
IIRC.  I'm pretty sure these perl packages are one of the things autoup
will do for you.


-- 
Ed


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