Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade
if you still have that vm up....
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:55 AM, George Standish
<george.standish@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21/04/11 06:14 AM, David Sanders wrote:
>
>> So, a small question - How suicidal is crossgrading back to Debian by
>> altering my APT sources?
>
> I was interested if this had any chance of working, so I tried in a VM to go
> from Ubuntu 10.10 to Squeeze. I failed miserably (possibly due to user
> error, possibly not). These are the steps I took:
>
> 1) updated sources.list with Debian repository
>
> 2) "apt-get update" failed due to missing key
> a) "sudo apt-get install debian-archive-keyring" (didn't correct issue)
> b) "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key AED4B06F473041FA && gpg --armor
> --export AED4B06F473041FA | sudo apt-key add"
>
> 3) "sudo apt-get update"
apt-get clean
> 5) "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"
>
> error due to missing "scanner" group, "sudo addgroup scanner" continued
> process
>
> erlang-base & erlang-base-hipe "broken package"
> "sudo apt-get install erlang-base-hipe" got around this
>
> Had some more package issues, so tried aptitude instead "sudo apt-get
> install aptitude"
cd /var/cache/apt/archive
find *.deb | while read f; do dpkg --force-all -i $f; done
this should start failing about half way through because of glibc
(complaining about dpkg or tar or some such). reboot, and repeat.
now, there are probably going to be some config file issues. though,
maybe not because you're replacing them all anyway.
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