Re: Potato to Woody upgrade failure

[Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com>]

Larry <doccpu@yahoo.com> writes:

> Heres the deal.
>
> I'm using Potato.
>
> I have a Woody CD set.
>
> Procedures:
> 1) Comment out lines in /etc/apt/sources.list
> 2) apt-cdrom add   (for each of the Woody CD's)
> 3) apt-get update
> 4) apt-get dist-upgrade
>    At which point I got the message:
>    E: Internal Error, couldn't configure a pre-depend
>
> Tried:
> 5) apt-get upgrade
>
> 6) apt-get dist-upgrade
>    Got the same pre-depend error.
>
> Where do I go from here?

Check the messages and try to figure which package is dying when being
upgraded. Either force install the package (dpkg --force-install
package-name.deb) or remove the package and install it when system is
fully updated.

It usually doesn't hurt to uninstall most packages since most packages
keep their configuration data even when they are removed. The less
that needs to be upgraded the less that can go wrong.

Hope that helps,
Bijan