Errors in upgrading old Woody. Help?
Thanks to Scott and others who have been answering my questions. I still
have some troubles.
I am running Woody installed Nov 2001 on which I have successfully run
apt-get update
apt-get install aptitude
Per discussion in the release notes and upgrade notes, and on this list, I
ran the command:
apt-get dist-upgrade || apt-get -f install
I got the following error. Twice.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome-applets: Depends: gnome-panel (>= 1.2.0-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 (>= 0.11.0-1) but it is not going to be installed
rep-gtk-gnome: Depends: libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 (>= 0.11.0-2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
The first time I tried
dpkg --audit
I got a bus error I cleared the screen and ran something else, then again.
to be sure I got what i thought, and I got this.
dpkg --audit
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 16531 package
`cpp-3.0':
`Depends' field, reference to `gcc-3.0-base': version contains ` '
This is the error I got from the second time I attempted to issue the
command.
This is supposed to be -- well, if not easy, then easier than other OS
upgrade. Doesn't seem to be. Somebody help me, please?
David Teague
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Full error messages from two successive attempts to
run apt-get dist-upgrade || apt-get -f install
elentari:~# apt-get dist-upgrade || apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Failed
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome-applets: Depends: gnome-panel (>= 1.2.0-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 (>= 0.11.0-1) but it is not going to be installed
rep-gtk-gnome: Depends: libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 (>= 0.11.0-2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 453 not upgraded.
elentari:~# apt-get dist-upgrade || apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Failed
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome-applets: Depends: gnome-panel (>= 1.2.0-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 (>= 0.11.0-1) but it is not going to be installed
rep-gtk-gnome: Depends: libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 (>= 0.11.0-2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 453 not upgraded.
elentari:~# apt-get dist-upgrade || apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Failed
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome-applets: Depends: gnome-panel (>= 1.2.0-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 (>= 0.11.0-1) but it is not going to be installed
rep-gtk-gnome: Depends: libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 (>= 0.11.0-2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 453 not upgraded.
elentari:~# apt-get install dpkg apt debconf
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, apt is already the newest version.
2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 451 not upgraded.
Need to get 1167kB of archives. After unpacking 147kB will be freed.
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main dpkg 1.9.21 [1073kB]
Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main debconf 1.0.32 [94.0kB]
Fetched 1167kB in 13s (87.1kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 16532 package `cpp-3.0':
`Depends' field, reference to `gcc-3.0-base': error in version: epoch in version is not number
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
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