stable -> testing
I have a Debian stable system, but I'm thinking unstable might be in my
future.
This morning I thought I'd perform the simple task of compiling pan from
cvs.
Trying to do the autoconf / make thing led me to install several packages,
which required even more packages. I through up my hands when I needed a new
glib, which required a new libc, which wouldn't install due to some other
failed dependency. Okay, I'm thinking that stable is just too painful and
maybe I should be using testing.
Reading through the archives, I'm rather scared to move to testing. Seems
many people end up with something broken when they attempt this. But,
soldiering on....
I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my /etc/apt/sources.list file.
I did an 'apt-get update'. But when I attempt to do an 'apt-get upgrade', I
get the following error:
45 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 229 not upgraded.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
debianutils: PreDepends: libc6 (>= 2.1.97) but 2.1.3-18 is to be installed
E: Internal Error, InstallPackages was called with broken packages!
bear:~#
So now I seem to have a half-broken system that can't be upgraded.
Advice?
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Senior Consultant | Object Oriented Design
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