On Sat, 16 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Tonight I was upgrading a buzz machine to bo. I first mounted > the CD and run "dpkg -iGROBE *" which was ok except that of course > it didn't install new packages like base-files/base-passwd to replace > base, or the deps etc. So after that I ran dselect, went through > all the steps, and when I got to remove, it started to remove almost > everything! All the standard packages, all the essential packages etc. > This really hosed the system. Why would it do this? It did it on another > machine once too. > > I just reinstalled it with bo, since it was only a test machine anyway.
A buzz -> bo upgrade requires you to upgrade dpkg first. The sequence is dpkg --clear-available dpkg -i ldso_*.deb dpkg -i libc5_*.deb dpkg -i dpkg_*.deb dpkg-ftp_*.deb dpkg --purge --force-depends texbin I guess most of us have virtually forgotten all that stuff as we upgraded so long ago. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
