Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

[Edward Kamau <emkamau@afrocenter.com>]

Hi

I have been running Sid for a while now. Today I decided to do a
'apt-get dist-upgrade' (after doing an update). Two problems have arisen
from this.

1. apt-get has been unable to reach Debian mirrors for 'non-us' i.e apt
fails with a 404 error. I basically got around this by commenting out
the 'non-us' lines in my sources.list. Does anybody (in the US) have a
sources.list that works for them with Sid? And would you be willing to
share?

2. More seriously 'apt-get dist-upgrade' is failing when it comes to
installing udev with the following messages:

Preparing to replace udev 0.048-3
(using .../archives/udev_0.068-2_i386.deb) ...
ln: `/etc/udev/rules.d/020_permissions.rules': File exists
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.068-2_i386.deb
(--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.068-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Does anybody know how I can get around this?

emk