Re: Errors Upgrading to Latest 'sarge'
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 16:13:15 -0700, Aikins, Ronald (Ron) (CIV) wrote:
> I'm currently running 'sarge' & am trying to upgrade to the latest in
> sarge before upgrading to 'etch'. The problems I'm having doing this
> make me reluctant to try & jump straight to etch before I get this
> install worked out.
>
> One thing that may have gotten my dependencies in a twist is that some
> months ago I updated only libc6 in order to get the timezone updates for
> the new DST settings. I've since read things saying that it's not a good
> idea to upgrade the 'libs' pkgs separately. Who knew? It's also possible
> - I forget the exact date when I did this - that I had sources.list
> pointing to 'stable' & Etch was already out.
The problem seems to be that you installed "tzdata" which is not in
Sarge. Normally this should never happen, because of the same file
conflict that troubles you now. Did you mess around with "dpkg
--force-..." in the past?
> My most recent attempts are documented below. However, I really don't
> get the convoluted dependencies. For instance, the line:
> "libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge6) but 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge5
> is installed"
>
> This means the pkg libc6-dev needs the "-sarge6" version of libc6, but
> the "-sarge5" version is installed, right? But installing the newer
> version of libc6 is what I'm trying to do. Is it only the conflict with
> timezone folders?
Yes, that is the primary problem since it prevents you from installing
the "-sarge6" version of libc6. This breaks libc6-dev and locales.
[...]
> Do I need to remove a package - libc6 or tzdata - to get past this? I
> don't get what's hanging it up. I may have hosed things But... I don't
> get how, why, or what to do about it :-(
Get rid of tzdata and tell apt to fix your system:
dpkg --purge tzdata
apt-get install -f
(If you accidentally upgraded util-linux to the Etch version then you
have to downgrade it again before you can remove tzdata.)
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