Re: Upgrade From 5.02 To 5.05

[Greg Heilers <heilers.greg@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:10:22 -0800
Greg Madden <pabi@gci.net> wrote:
> 
>  NOTE: You must accept Sun's EULA prior to successfully installing
>  this package: sun-java6-bin 
> 
> 
> You could put the sun java stuff on hold, or say yes to continue without 
> authentication.
> 

That is what I ended up doing.

> 'aptitude' might work better in your case, at least it has a better resolver. more 
> verbose.
>

How prescient of you!  When I ran 'apt-get upgrade' the CD/DVD drive churned
away for a long while...but nothing ever got processed/upgraded.  

However, running 'aptitude safe-upgrade' did the trick.

Thanks everyone!
 

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