On Saturday 09 December 2006 14:02, Wolfgang Schnitker wrote: > I have just dist-upgraded 2 PC from woody to etch and ran in following > problems: Are you sure you mean _woody_ to etch, not sarge? If you did upgrade from woody then I'm afraid that that is an upgrade path that is not supported: Debian only supports upgrading from the previous release to a new release (as documented in the Release notes). > 1.) Take care about first removing xserver-common package from > xserver-xfree before installing xserver-xorg. apt complains about > already exisitng files. > > 2.) remove xlibsdata package from xfree before installing xserver-xorg. > apt complains about already exisitng files. > > --> my proposal: since woody depends on xfree, prior to install xorg > (etch) all xfree packages have to be removed. Thanks for the warning, but all we can do is hope that people will find this mail (or upgrade to Sarge first). Cheers, FJP
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