Re: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade SOLVED
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:09:02 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 06:22:48PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 08:09:14 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:23:48PM -0400, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > > > I think I solved the problem. The files were missing, but also found.
[ snip: python upgrade problem solved by clever symlink trickery ]
> > I suspect that the problem may have been caused by using python 2.3 to
> > perform the setup of python 2.5. Even Etch has python 2.4 as the default
> > version already. Mark, do you know why your system defaulted to python
> > 2.3? Has it been a really long time (years) since the previous upgrade?
>
> he's been, so far as I can tell, using apt-get upgrade. Mightn't that
> cause him to stay on 2.3?
Good point, I think that explains it. Aptitude now calls the two
commands "safe-upgrade" and "full-upgrade", respectively; let's hope
that this will help to avoid this classical misunderstanding about
"upgrade" and "dist-upgrade".
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