On 12-May-99 Daniel Mashao wrote: > Yesterday I had to re-install a lot of packages as my system became > 'unusable'. The problem began when I tried to fix Star Office after > upgrading. I think my system was slink/potato but I couldn't tell the > percentage of each system. Anyway I thought one way to ensure that the > system works is to put a slink CD and update/upgrade libc6 and all hell > broke loose. Not that apt did not warm me that it will be uninstalling a > lot of packages. But I had faith that if I said update libc6 it will leave > everything in its state and just update. It told me it was going to > uninstall several applications. Well I thought that did not matter since > it will install them again. - That how my system died. I finally had to > rebuild it one app at the time.
Which commands did you use with apt-get? I used apt-get yesterday and the only problem I had was that it would not install the final package (there were 20). I had to download that package with my browser and install it manually. I did not use 'apt-get upgrade-dist' though. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
