Re: Serious problems after "apt-get dist-upgrade"
--- Carl Fink <carl@fink.to> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 04:21:08PM -0700, Eric
> Dickner wrote:
>
> > ... I got all the
> > packages...the problem is they sit in the
> > /var/cache/apt/archives directory uninstalled,
> except
> > for a few crucial ones that hurt more than they
> > helped, like libc6 2.3.x.
>
> How about 'find /var/cache/apt/archives "*deb" -exec
> dpkg -i {} \;'?
>
Carl,
That was a very powerful command that I will remember
for later use...after I reinstall Woody and start
over. Tons of things were installed that "apt-get
dist-upgrade" missed but they ended up hosing the
system. I had to boot off of the floppy and re-run
LILO even. After I got the kernel going the X-windows
system was missing a bunch of things.
The documentation states that "apt-get dist-upgrade"
is "not recommended." I'd have to say that it just
doesn't work; there aren't many places for a user to
go wrong since it's so automated, but it has proven to
be a disaster. I don't think it's me...
Some of the dependency conflicts make no sense. One
that I remember clearly was libstdc++5 needed gcc-3.3
to be configured. The *very next package* was gcc-3.3
that said it needed libstdc++5 to be configured
(WTH?!).
It was all a huge mass of dependency and configuration
conflicts. Both "apt-get" and "dpkg" were simply not
up to the task of straightening them out and that
command at the top that you told me just forced "dpkg"
to do it's worst on that mass of .deb's with very bad
results.
It took over 35 hours to download them all...I'd say
that no one should ever try it; just download the
current iso images and cut CD's. Spare yourself the
grief.
ejd
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