I have had this same problem with a perfectly updated 2.2r3 that was just installed. At the time I shelved it as it was not something I had time for, but now I am back trying to upgrade from potato to woody again. Anyone have any info? Thanks, Bill
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, David Goodenough wrote: > I am tying to install Woody on a laptop so that I can > install XFree 4.0.3 and then upgrade it to 4.1 with an > extra fix as currently the SIS driver does not handle > my laptop's LCD properly. I also need to be running > a 2.4 kernel as otherwise the Ethernet NIC does not > work. > > I installed 2.2r3 from CD, and then copied down the > 2.4 upgrade DEBs and cut a CD. From this I installed > what is now a running, but text only, system. > > I tried to download 4.1 source but for some odd reason it > will not build (make World works but make install > complains about missing files even though they are > actually present on the system). However in discussion > with the Xpert list at Xfree86.org I found that others > were having success with Woody as a base rather than > stable 2.2r3. > > So having had an /etc/apt/sources.list which was entirely > CDROM based, I updated it to point at uk.debian.org > to download woody. The entry looks like:- > > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > > and I ran dselect which said that all manner of things > needed to be updated. > > It says that 233 packages need to be upgraded, 89 newly > installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded. It then starts > scanning packages, gets to 90% and complains about > a Template parse error near "" at > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm > line 102, <TEMPLATES> chunk 2. > > So I did a search on the archive for this list and found > advice (from the 17th July) to updrage DebConf on its > own using apt-get install DebConf which duely went > through (after one problem which a rerun seemed to > cure). > > Unfortunately the problem still persists, and I can not > get any further. Now it might be that I am missing > something sources.list file which I need, it might be > that the 2.4 upgrade package has mucked things up, > more likely I have mucked something up. > > Anyone got any ideas as to how to proceed? > > Thanks in advance > > David > > BTW, it would be useful if the various Debian > mirrors included sample apt/sources.list entries > on there websites. If they already do then I have > failed to find them and it would be useful to have > a pointer. Content-Description: Card for David Goodenough > sh: vcard-filter: command not found
