Re: Testing upgrade problem?
----- Original Message -----
From: "D. Hoyem" <youto_22554@yahoo.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 10:09 PM
Subject: 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
Not preconfiguring package - Apt-utls not installed.
Deinstallation of startx (xbases-client) does not make
sense with this... :o
> 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.
It's working now, then it's not broke now.
> Any help and suggestion are appreciated.
> Thanks
> Don
>
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