Re: Package installation errors
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:05:00PM -0700, Ram wrote:
> Hi all,
> i am a new user of linux in general and debian in specific. I recently
> updated my system with the following commands :
> #apt-get update
> #apt-get upgrade
> #apt-get dist upgrade
>
I'm guessing that you upgraded to unstable, which lives up to its name.
<snip>
> kotapc:~# apt-get -f install
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> udev
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> udev
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 50 not upgraded.
> 559 not fully installed or removed.
this 50 not upgraded, 559 not fully installed business is worrying me.
Are you sure your upgrade and dist-upgrade worked?
> Need to get 0B/278kB of archives.
> After unpacking 307kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
> (Reading database ... 101947 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace udev 0.056-2 (using .../archives/udev_0.076-6_i386.deb)
> ...
> udev requires a kernel >= 2.6.12, upgrade aborted.
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.076-6_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.076-6_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> #
>
i
Right now, the sid kernel images are broken. see
http://wiki.debian.org/TopicDebianDevel for more infomation. Thats
messing up udev, which as you see wants a recent kernel image.
>
>
> So what am I doing wrong ?
I feel I should warn you off running unstable. Its going though a lot of
work right now, which means massive breakages. Also, before sarge was
released, everyone ran unstable or testing becuase woody was too old. I
feel that sarge is still reasonably current.
>
> Thanks for the help in advance
> Ram
Sorry I couldn't be more help
Pete
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