On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:33:10PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:47:55 -0600 (CST) Cheryl Homiak <chomiak@chartermi.net> wrote: > > I've installed woody from potato via dist-upgrade "apt-get --fix-broken > > --show-upgraded dist-upgrade" now three times in the past year; twice on > > my own machine and twice on others, and have allways been successful. The > > first time, dpkg couldn't preconfigure and I had to start installing > > packages one by one with apt-get until I finally found out the complaint > > was that I didn't have apt-utils (if I remember correctly); after I > > installed that, everything was fine. I think one other time I had to run > > dist-upgrade to get everything to download and install, but that was no > > big problem. A lot of the trick with upgrading to woody from potato is > > making sure everything downloads. The two things that can prevent this > > that I can think of immediately are: a ppp connection that broke off--but > > you should know about this because you'll get messages; and either not > > having the right lines in your sources.list or, if your potato lines are > > still there too, not having the woody lines in the right place, above the > > potato lines. Of course, I know it's not that simple; there are plenty of > > other things that can go wrong, but these were the ones that I found. At > > any rate, I'd be pretty comfortable now upgrading from potato to woody if > > I had to do it on a machine of my own or for somebody else. > > One suggestion might be to do: > apt-get -d dist-upgrade > apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade > > So, if your ppp (or broadband, for that matter) link goes down, > your system isn't messed up. I found that potato to woody upgrades went a lot better if the very first thing I did was "apt-get install apt debconf" I've done quite a few; all went reasonably well, though I've been using debian for a while now; my pain tolerance may be a little higher. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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