Testing upgrade problem?
I had Potato 2.2r.2 installed on my system and did a
upgrade to testing. I changed the sources to testing
and did apt-get update. Then did a apt-get
dist-upgrade. About 270 programs downloaded and then
started to install. During the installation I kept
seeing the message Unable to (and I forget this word)
<program>. Apt-utils not installed. After those
packeages were installed all I could do was use the
console, I tried startx and that came back command
unknown. I then installed xdm (received the same
message) and the dependicies that it required and was
up and running. I then installed apt-utils and then
another couple of programs and never saw that error
message again. The question is this, should I
reinstall the basic Potato, install apt-utils then do
the dist-upgrade, I can copy all of the downloaded
files to another disk and then restore them to the
/var/cache/apt/archives, or is there another way to do
this. My system does not currently seem broke. I
apologize for not remembering the exact wording of the
message.
Any help and suggestion are appreciated.
Thanks
Don
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