Re: need help installing unstable
And of course if you remember Toy Story Sid was the kid who broke
toys... :)
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Tommi Komulainen <Tommi.Komulainen@iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:30:12 +0200
>On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:30:07PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote:
>> Setting up debconf (0.5.49) ...
>> Can't locate warnings.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5
>[...]
>>
>> 1. Is this just a matter of course? Do I need to work my way
, slowly
>> and laboriously through these sorts of problems if I wish to
install a
>> sid/unstable system , or is there l ikely to be a
straightforward fix to
>> this which would enable me to install all of the packages
without too
>> much hassle?
>
>I remember seeing similar errors while helping my friend
upgrading from
>potato to sid. I don't know exactly where the problem lies, but
>reinstalling perl-5.6, perl-5.6-base and debconf seemed to fix it
for us.
>You can't use apt-get just yet, but cd into
/var/cache/apt/archives, you
>should find all the packages there. Simply install them using
>dpkg --install.
>
>Your mileage may vary, though.
>
>
>> 2. Are there documents somewhere which are specific to
installind
>> sid/unstable?
>
>The documentation goes like this:
>
>1. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace every occurence of
'potato' or
> 'woody' with 'sid' and 'stable' or 'testing' with 'unstable'.
>2. run apt-get update
>3. run apt-get dist-upgrade
>
>If unstable weren't unstable, you shouldn't have had any problems
>whatsoever. Unfortunately this is not the case. Problems come and
go as
>new packages are added and old ones upgraded, therefore an
installation
>manual to unstable would always be outdated.
>
>Today there are known problems with perl and debconf, yesterday
it was X4,
>day before yesterday glibc was fscked, and so on. Tomorrow it
could be
>dpkg or apt that is broken.
>
>When woody was 'unstable' there was this following quote:
>
>"This release is currently considered ``unstable''. That means
that things
> *will* break if you run it."
>
>Naturally the same quote now applies to sid.
>
>Have fun.
>
>
>--
>Tommi Komulainen
Tommi.Komulainen@iki.fi
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