tom arnall wrote:
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
Good luck. It sounds like your best option for now, but for the record I don't
think it would any big deal to fix your system. I've made worse mistakes, but I
also realize that not everyone has the time or inclination to perform surgery on
a broken install in the name of science or hack value. :-)
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