Re: dselect in sid
On Thursday 11 July 2002 01:31 am, Roy Pluschke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After a recent 'apt-get upgrade' on a sid system my dselect
> appears to be broken :( I get the following error message
> when attempting to do an update
>
> unable to access method script `/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup':
> No such file or directory
>
> I do however have the following files on my system
>
> /usr/lib/dpkg/disk/setup
> /usr/lib/dpkg/floppy/setup
> /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup
> /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup
>
> Does anyone else have this problem ??
> If nobody else has this problem (ie. a fixed dselect is not going
> to happen that will fix this problem) where do I set the path that
> dselect uses to locate the setup files?
>
from the apt-get man page:
upgrade is used to install the newest versions of
all packages currently installed on the system from
the sources enumerated in /etc/apt/sources.list.
Packages currently installed with new versions
available are retrieved and upgraded; under no cir
cumstances are currently installed packages
removed, or packages not already installed
retrieved and installed. New versions of currently
installed packages that cannot be upgraded without
changing the install status of another package will
be left at their current version. An update must be
performed first so that apt-get knows that new ver
sions of packages are available.
the last sentence above matters: you need to apt-get update before any
upgrade. the more important point is the upgrade should not have removed
anything without giving you proper notification. have you just upgraded to
sid? if so, you should have first upgraded the apt and dpkg tools. it would
probably aid the solution process if you could precisely describe the order
of events that preceded getting that error. it sounds like a bug, but a bug
in what?
ben
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