Hi (Jim and D): Some further notes. The dist-upgrade seems to get stuck trying to install libc6-dev2.2.3-5 ( it seems to think that this depends on libc62.2.1 ) but this is not available in testing:
trying to overwrite /usr/bin/rpcgen which is also in package netbase dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal(broken-pipe) Trying dpkg -i libc6-dev2.2.3-5 also gives the same error. So even if I try apt-get install debconf perl5.004 etc, it gets stuck at the libc6dev. (My other machine, which incidentally is unstable not testing as I stated earlier had trouble with debconf but I was able to manually install debconf and seems to be chugging away as I write, installing the packages) I can of course try to go to unstable, but I would rather not right now. What other routes are available Thanks Sebastian. On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:11:45PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 06:49:43PM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > | Hi: > | > | I am trying to upgrade testing on my second machine (apt-get > | update; apt-get dist-upgrade) but it aborts. So I first tried to > | install debconf ( apt-get install debconf ) and I get: > | > | Extra Packages to be installed: > | libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-target-perl libmime-base64-perl > | libperl5.6 perl perl-5.004 perl-5.004-suid perl5.6 > | perl-base perl-modules. > | > | Removed: perl-5.004-base > | perl-5.005 > | perl-5.005-base > | > | New: libhtml-tagset-perl > | libperl5.6 > | perl > | perl-modules > | perl-suid > | > | Essential package to be removed: perl-5.004-base. You are about to do > | something potentially harmful. Don't do this unless you know what you > | are doing. > | > | At this stage I aborted. Anybody have any ideas whether its Ok > | to say yes? > > The perl version changed. However, perl is a critical component of > the Debian core (dpkg or apt or debconf or something like that). If > you do a dist-upgrade then everything will get upgraded together and > there won't be a problem because you replace one perl with another, > and all the packages that depend on it are replaced with packages that > depend on the new perl instead. > > I did a dist-upgrade a few weeks ago without any trouble. Maybe if > you try again, as opposed to upgrading stuff one-at-a-time it will > work better? Why did it abort in the first place? Did dpkg just die? > If so, run it again (it happened to me a couple times). > > At the moment I have : > > $ dpkg -l perl\*base > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: > |uppercase=bad) > ||/ Name Version Description > +++-==============-==============-============================================ > pn perl-5.004-bas <none> (no description available) > ii perl-5.005-bas 6.2 Transitional package. > un perl-5.6-base <none> (no description available) > ii perl-base 5.6.1-5 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. > un perl5-base <none> (no description available) > > > -D > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University [EMAIL PROTECTED]
