On Sunday 20 January 2008 12:37, Marty wrote: > tom arnall wrote: > > Marty, > > > > should i be concerned about the following. i did this without pointing > > sources.list to the new repository. > > Well, fix that. :-) > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > > It's a typical cascade of errors caused by the first few individual package > dependency problems. Again I don't know what dist-upgrade did, but dselect > should recover or at least fix most of the problems, assuming you address > the permissions issues in /etc raised by Daniel and point to the right > repository. Good luck. Keep posting if you have problems. If may be a > hard slog, but you can probably be walked though this.
thanks for the help Marty. i have decided to do a reset and reinstall. i broke my system doing the 'chmod -R 777 /dev' and i think i just need to bite the bullet and do what others recommended back then. not doing it and asking for help with some of the consequent problems is really a bit much ;o). tom arnall arcata -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
