Re: Debian 2.0 upgrade didn't work
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Keith wrote:
> I am trying to upgrade to Debian 2.0 via ftp. I ran the autoup.sh
> script and everything was fine. Then I fired up dselect to update
> all my packages. That is where everything fell apart.
> I selected all the packages in dselect that I wanted but it errored
> everytime dselect tried to get one of the packages. I hit ctrl-c and
> now when I go in to dselect it shows all the packages as being installed
> already. My questions are:
>
> 1) How do I get dselect to stop showing the required packages that I need
> to update as already being installed?
Are you sure that is what is shown? If so, the first field
will show <space>***
If anything else is shown, such as <space>U**, <space><space>**, they are
not installed. You can check further by issuing 'dpkg -l <package_name>'
and if the package is install, it will say 'ii'.
>
> 2) What are the settings that I need to use in dselect to get the packages that
> I need below is my dselect configurations?
>
> Enter ftp site [ftp.debian.org]:
>
> Use passive mode [y]:
>
> Enter username [anonymous]:
>
> If you are using anonymous ftp to retrieve files, enter your email
> address for use as a password. Otherwise enter your password,
> or "?" if you want dpkg-ftp to prompt you each time.
>
> Enter password [nfn11988@naples.net]:
>
> Enter debian directory [/debian]:
> Go through an authenticated FTP proxy [n]:
>
> Note: order here is important. Package files are scanned in order so
> later distributions will override earlier ones.
>
> So put stable before unstable.
>
> Enter space seperated list of distributions to get
> [hamm/hamm]:
dists/stable
>
> Enter directory to download binary package files to
> (relative to /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/)
> [/packages]:
main contrib non-free
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