On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 11:52:17PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > 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. Another trick (which shouldn't really be neccessary, I guess) is to upgrade apt, dpkg and debconf first. # apt-get install apt dpkg debconf # apt-get upgrade Of course, this is just a guess... -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Firewalls militia SCUD missile nuclear Lexis-Nexis JFK
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