Re: potato -> sid
Hi,
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:16:11AM +0100, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> Hello all,
> Yes, I know it's foolish to go from Potato to Sid in a single bound,
> but hey.
Interesting experiment :)
> I uninstalled pretty much everything from potato - and left just a
> skeleton system for the upgrade. Apt-get -f dist-upgrade and then
> waited. After downloading apt freaked out (I can't remember at which
> point), so I used dselect to see if that could sort it out. It wanted
> to download another 40MB, for a complete upgrade I guess. Fine, so I
> waited some more. Now it's done it is having difficulty with
> configuring debconf:
>
> Setting up debconf (1.1.14) ...
> no type given for question at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line
> 15.
> dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> debconf
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> And obviously loads of important stuff ain't getting done.
> How do I get out of this one?
OK, Not bad. You need to install many basic packages before getting
debconf running.
# cd /var/cache/apt/archives
# dpkg -i libc<TAB><RET>
# dpkg -i perl*<RET>
# dpkg -i apt*<RET>
# dpkg -i debconf*<RET>
# apt-get -f upgrade
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