Re: etch to lenny upgrade [more info]

[Petteri <petteri@gmail.com>]

Randy Patterson kirjoitti to 17. toukokuuta 2007 10:50:02:
> When I execute;
> 
> dpkg -l
> 
> I get the following relevant lines of information. [all other lines snipped.]
> 
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                              Version                         
> Description
> +++-======-============================================
> ii  linux-image-2.6-486               2.6.18+6                        Linux 
> kernel 2.6 image on x86
> iHR linux-image-2.6.18-4-486          2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch1           Linux 
> 2.6.18 image on x86
> 
> When I type;
> 
> aptitude install linux-image-2.6.18-4-486
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> Building tag database... Done
> Couldn't find any package whose name or description 
> matched "linux-2.6.18-4-486"
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.18-4-486
> package. 

I would guess that the metapackage linux-image-2.6-486 is not uptodate
and so it points to package linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 which don't
actually exist. Wait until the fix the linux-image-2.6-XXX packages or
install linux-image-2.6.20-1-486.

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