Re: etch to lenny upgrade
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:42:19AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote:
> I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one by
> changing etch references to lenny.
>
> My current sources.list
>
> deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
> deb-src ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
>
> When I do, "aptitude upgrade"
>
> debian:/home/randy# aptitude upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> Building tag database... Done
> The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
> mkisofs
> The following packages have been kept back:
> libdjvulibre15 libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-port0 openoffice.org-calc
> openoffice.org-core
> openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-kde openoffice.org-writer python-uno
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>
> <snip>
>
> The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
> checkpolicy debconf-utils iproute-doc libjaxp1.3-java-gcj
> libxerces2-java-gcj mdetect
> mime-construct sane-utils setools vcdimager
> 204 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
> Need to get 172kB of archives. After unpacking 32.8MB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
> Writing extended state information... Error!
> E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 package. This
> might mean you need to manually fix this package.
> E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root?
>
> I'm not sure how to continue from here?
>
> Thanks!
Do you recall any file that you manually removed or any thing that
happended to your system that might be related to this error?
Wait, did you do this as 'root'? You need to be root.
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