Hi! I was/am running potato and tried a dist-upgrade after a s/stable/testing/ in apt.sources. Here 's what I get: # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: freetype-tools gcc-doc gnome-gturing librpm1 libxfont-xtt locale-zh python-base task-chinese-s task-python tetex-lib tfm-arphic-bkai00mp xcontrib xlib6g-dev xmanpages xpm4g xsm zh-trans The following NEW packages will be installed: abiword-common abiword-gtk autoconf2.13 autotools-dev bind9-host console-common cpp-2.95 defoma docbook-xml expect expectk g++-2.95 g77-2.95 gcc-2.95 gconf gettext-el gnome-mime-data groff-base gs-common icewm-common ifupdown imagemagick ipchains klogd libbonobo2 libbz2-1.0 libcap1 libcapplet1 libcupsys2 libdb3 libdb3-dev libdb3-util libdns5 libdps1 libefs1 libesmtp5 libexpat1 libfreetype6 libgal19 libgconf11 libgimpprint1 libgnome-vfs-common libgnome-vfs0 libguile9 libhz0 libisc4 libkpathsea3 liblcms libldap2 libltdl3 liblwres1 libmagick5 libnetpbm9 liboaf0 libpcap0 libpcre3 libperl5.6 libplot libpspell-ispell1 libpspell4 librpm4 libsasl7 libscrollkeeper0 libssl0.9.6 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libtabe2 libttf2 libungif4g libwmf0.2-2 libxaw6 libxaw7 libxml2 libxslt1 net-tools netcdfg3 netkit-inetd netkit-ping oaf octave2.0 perl perl-doc perl-modules perl-suid portmap python python2.1 python2.1-doc scrollkeeper sgml-base sgml-data tcl8.3 tk8.3 vnc-common xlibs xlibs-dev xmhtml1 xserver-common-v3 The following packages have been kept back balsa gdk-imlib-dev gedit gnome-core gnome-help gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session gnome-utils gnumeric ttf-arphic-bkai00mp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-gkai00mp xcingb xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-cmex-big5p xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-intl-chinese xfonts-intl-chinese-big xfonts-scalable 337 packages upgraded, 97 newly installed, 17 to remove and 23 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/198MB of archives. After unpacking 99.6MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 94% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 102, <TEMPLATES> chunk 3. E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
Is there a workaround ? Please help. Thanks, Sebastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]