Jude DaShiell wrote: > I tried taking a friend's machine from lenny to squeeze and it > turned into a disaster. As a consequence of the attempt his entire > package update and repair systems are broken. apt-get -f install > can't fix anything and dpkg --configure -a can't fix anything Did you upgrade the kernel and reboot before upgrading the rest of the system? I am guessing that you tried to do a full dist-upgrade all in one pass. That is going to see a lot of problems because it doesn't work. Read this reference: http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#minimal-upgrade But this how-to-recover reference might help you now: http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#how-to-recover Bob
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