Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....
On Sunday 06 February 2011 12:13:33 pm Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Folks,
>
> I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze on my AMD64 box. It did work but I
> got some grumbles about the package grabbing applet not being able to
> find some files it wanted from the repositories and some grumbling
> about one or two disorganised package dependencies in Openoffice and
> other minor grumbles.
>
> But I am running it nevertheless. What commands could I run to do a
> sort of upgrade health check? Something like aptitude
> sniff-out-bad-dependencies
> and aptitude try-to-repair-them-if -possible?
>
> I used the mirror.ox.ac.uk as the repository. ftp.uk.debian.org
> seemed to be out of commission for a while but I think it is working
> again now.
>
> Comments appreciated.
>
> Michael Fothergill
>
> P.S. The window managing program that starts xwindows automatically
> from the login prompt doesn't seem to have installed so I am having to
> type startx at the terminal but then gnome fires up OK.....
http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/releasenotes
esp. chapter 4: 4.4.6 upgrading kernel & udev.
Failures of X are logged in '/var/log/Xorg.0.log'
One thing I noticed is apt-get is recommended now, for more tasks.
--
Peace,
Greg
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