Re: stable -> testing
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:55:53PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote:
> I have a Debian stable system, but I'm thinking unstable might be in my
> future.
>
[snip]
>
> 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?
Instead of apt-get upgrade, try apt-get dist-upgrade - I think this should
work. And testing should be fine, don't worry about stuff breaking.
>
>
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