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Re: apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade have problems



On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 15:08, Joris Huizer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Since the reports about debian servers being cracked (or something like 
> that) apt-get update can't connect to a server people.debian.org 
> (192.25.206.10)
> I believe this is a non-us server so it seems reasonable to assume this 
> is just because debian guru's are still working out what happened and 
> everything.
> 
> So far no real problem; Because I'm using woody, and the debian 3.0 r2 
> was ? released, I want to get the computer up to date;
> Even though apt-get couldn't connect to people.debian.org, I decided to 
> run a apt-get dist-upgrade ; After asking about configuring the 
> keyboard, it complains about debianutils trying to overwrite 
> `/bin/readlink', which is also in package coreutils (see also the 
> attached log file)
> 
> What causes this ? I'm using packages from http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk
> but I didn't see anything about coreutils so I think this is not the 
> cause of this problem ...
> 
> Can anybody tell me what to do to get the new debianutils to install?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Joris

If you have a slew of unofficial sources in your /etc/apt/sources.list
file, you should remove all of them and try again. Such packages are
unofficial for a good reason.

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