Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
Help me please!
I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to Sarge
and it is a DISASTER.
HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! !
With a post like this, I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't get much
help. You're not exactly welcoming...
I don't know why you used dselect to do this.
I am pretty certain that you really don't want to use dselect when doing
a distribution upgrade. Did you read the very fine manual before
upgrading?
If not, then you might consider doing that now.
However, if you are short on time and can't be bothered, you might
attempt the following:
Assumption:
between your sources.list and preferences files you are choosing stable
by default and that you have a sources.list that includes all the proper
debian branches.
apt-get autoclean; this will clean up your cache directory, good thing
to do every once in a while but no required.
apt-get update;
apt-get dist-upgrade
This is the way you are supposed to do an upgrade of this type. Not
dselect.
If it doesn't work for you, start with an apt-get check to see what the
status is. Then you might be able to get some more useful information
for people to use in order to help you get out of this jam. help us to
help you.
However, if you continue to come off as "How can you do this to me" then
enjoy being a pseudo-victim becuase you were the one who didn't read the
fine manual. Self Abuse is nothing we can be guilty of.
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