help needed with problem with udev on Parallels based jessie

I have been running Parallels on my macbook pro laptop for a few months and it works great so far. Recently I decided to do the update + upgrade sequence and got a problem which seems to point to udev. There are around 56 things that will need updating and then upgrading and the whole thing fails

question about peculiar svn error

I am trying to extract a public svn software source and have run against an immediate error returned. Here are the particulars: svn checkout http::/xx/yy/codename codename --username=anomymous and give a password of anonymous (the approved pw). the response is: Cannot mix incompatible Qt libr

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2015 #51

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problem with corrupted root password

I recently got wheezy up and running. I installed xfce4 and like it. However, today in the process of trying to spawn a root terminal (in Accessories) and going through a cycle of trying to get authorized but being prevented by repeated complaints that the system password I used was not correct,

help in purging old packages

Hi, I have a situation in which I am running wheezy 7.7 and for various reasons now want to purge all packages which for some reason are still present from etch, lenny, and squeeze. What I would like to know is how can I purge all such packages using dpkg? I can not seem to find how to select ju