Re: unstable system dies: apt-get dist-upgrade
Am 04. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Alan E. Davis so:
> Fairly often however I am harassed by messages from
> "install-info". I have developed a standard operating
Don't think I've ever run into that.
> I am reinstalling, but if I can figure this one out, I will save myself
> a month of work. This was a well loaded system with lots of
> self-installed packages. I am starting from potato, now have upgraded to
> woody.
Have you tried "apt-get --reinstall"? Don't know if it works. The only
system I've had hosed enough to need it was well beyond the help available
from a reinstall :).
Minimally do a "dpkg --get-selections >/tmp/selections.txt" and transfer
that file somewhere safe. Then after doing a minimal install, you can "dpkg
--set-selections </tmp/selections.txt", then do a dist-upgrade. Actually,
maybe a dselect-upgrade would be more appropriate at that point.
ciao,
der.hans
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