Re: New woody upgrade problems
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 23:42:25 -0500
Casey@umit.maine.edu (Casey Henderson) wrote:
> Here's a problem related to your problem. I got the same error when
> trying to install xlibs. Earlier, I had received a warning about the
> app-defaults thing. I moved the files in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to /etc/app-defaults, and made a
> symlink from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to /etc/app-defaults
> (because I thought this was what I was supposed to do).
I have done this too. I get the error message only with xlibs and I get
over it by using 'dpkg -i --force-overwrite xlibs-blah-blah'. Dpkg
complains that xlibs has unresolved dependencies, but I then repeat the
'apt-get dist-upgrade' and apt carries on configuring packages. In that
process it will configure xlibs correctly.
Apt-get is annoying when it decides to simply stop processing any more
packages it has downloaded. There have been times when I haven't realised
what it has done (or not done) and I have had a half-upgraded system as a
result. Now I tend to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' more than once to assure
myself that it has indeed completed the process. You can use dpkg to
configure pending packages too.
--
Phillip Deackes
Using Storm Linux 2000
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