On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 the mental interface of
Eric Dickner told:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Woody 2.2.20-idepci system running on a Dell
> that I am trying to upgrade to 2.4.x (Sarge, or
> testing) with mixed results.
>
> At first I felt that I should download source and
> recompile the kernels, and I did that, but those
> kernels did not match any Debian patched headers,
> which I need. Those kernels run OK but I'm not able
> to compile and add the modules that I need/like.
>
> The advice I got here was to use this procedure:
>
> "Change Woody to Sarge in sources.list"
>
> I assumed this meant change "stable" to "testing"
> which is what I did.
>
> "apt-get update" This when fine.
>
> "apt-get dist-upgrade" This did not connect...
>
> It immediately went through my dependency tree and
> gave me a list of packages to "apt-get -f install". I
> thought the power of "apt-get" was that it figured out
> what packages you needed and got them automatically?
The power of apt is to inform the user if the database isn't
consistent. Just type apt-get install -f and after that retype
apt-get dist-upgrade ;-)
HTH
Elimar
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The path to source is always uphill!
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