Re: apt-get questions ?????
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:49:25PM +0800, Saran wrote:
> Hi there people,
>
> Okay I took the plunge to update my Debian Slink with some of the latest
> updates. I installed linuxconf with apt-get and now my lynx, slrn and
> debconf is dead. Dead Dead !!! I dunno what other packages are affected,
> it'll probably take time to figure that out... when I need to use it, that
> is.
>
> So the big question here is : How do I go about reinstalling these packages.
> I prefer to use lynx to access websites rather than going in to X and
> starting up a graphical browser to view the page. Furthermore, graphics
> take more bandwidth and time to download.
Wierd! That's rather scary actually. I hope someone is looking into what
caused this.
Run an "apt-get check" to check all of your packages' states. If these
aren't working, it will hopefully report it.
Otherwise, try reinstalling them.
apt-get install lynx, etc. See what happens.
Also, you say you're updating from slink. I'd recommend a full
dist-upgrade to potato. That may solve all of these problems. Not that they
should have happened, mind you. Something like this should never happen, IMHO,
but unfortunately we live in the real world.
Mike
--
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@storm.ca>
"...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount
of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX
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