On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 05:35:25AM -0700, Hamma Scott wrote: > I was trying to upgrade to Woody. I've downloaded the > packages and did the following through instructions > (thank you by the way for all the help so far) > > # dpkg -i perl*
Where are you? /var/cache/apt/archives ? This is last resort. This does not gurantee dependancies always. > I only had one package for perl (seemed a little odd). > I then tried to run: > # dpkg -i * This is even bolder. > After a bunch of output, I got a segmentation fault. Which package? Then install required package. Maybe libdb* > I then went through to try to upgrade libraries as I > was getting dependency problems and didn't know what > forcing the upgrade would do. > > Then, I thought the best thing to do is to do an > apt-get with dist-upgrade and --nodownload. I found > out that the apt-get must have been upgraded because > --nodownload is not recognized anymore. Maybe upgrade apt first. What is "apt-cache policy apt"? > I can run pon and apt-get, dpkg, vi, vim, but not > emacs right now. > Am I cooked? And what information would you need to > determine if I am? Just be paitient and fix problems one-by-one My quick-reference has some hint list to get out of situation like yours. http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ Good luck. :-) > I'm considering using apt-get dselect-upgrade, is this > viable now? Well, I got till tonight. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
