Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-23 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:00:51AM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > The directions you were given to upgrade apt and the problem you > encountered rang a bell so I dug around a bit and found the > information. There were static versions of apt and dpkg in the potato > tree (in debian/dists/potato/main/u

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 10:36, Pigeon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:17:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 14:41, Pigeon wrote: [snip] > What a shame that such a useful program has undergone no development > since 1999. What does everyone do - use 80x25, use framebuffer or

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-23 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:57:49AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:41:37PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > I tried upgrading apt first, but of course it required me to upgrade > > the @$?% C libraries... which breaks every other piece of software on > > the system... > > I'm confu

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-23 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:17:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 14:41, Pigeon wrote: > > Oh yes, and > > svgatextmode didn't work properly - the cursor didn't wrap to a new > > line when typing in a long command - so I reinstalled the old one. > > Congrats! > > Maybe the desi

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:41:37PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:32:29PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:25:24AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:15:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Could you try updating to Potato first? That wa

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:41:37PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 23:30:34 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Just guessing, but maybe it's segfaulting because some data or other > > has changed format and is barfing apt. Thus, "old data" may not > > cause the problems? > > > > Also, ma

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-22 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:32:29PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:25:24AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:15:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Could you try updating to Potato first? That way, you won't be > > > making such a huge version leap in almost

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:25:24AM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:15:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Could you try updating to Potato first? That way, you won't be > > making such a huge version leap in almost every bit of software > > in one step. This is definitely the rec

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 20:25, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:15:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 12:05, Pigeon wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Just got a set of Woody CDs (thanks Gerald!) to upgrade my slink > > > system. I've copied them all onto hard drives as iso

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-19 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:15:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 12:05, Pigeon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just got a set of Woody CDs (thanks Gerald!) to upgrade my slink > > system. I've copied them all onto hard drives as iso images and > > loopback mounted them (read only) to av

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 12:05, Pigeon wrote: > Hi, > > Just got a set of Woody CDs (thanks Gerald!) to upgrade my slink > system. I've copied them all onto hard drives as iso images and > loopback mounted them (read only) to avoid mucking around swapping CDs. > I then used apt-cdrom to add them all

Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-19 Thread Pigeon
Hi, Just got a set of Woody CDs (thanks Gerald!) to upgrade my slink system. I've copied them all onto hard drives as iso images and loopback mounted them (read only) to avoid mucking around swapping CDs. I then used apt-cdrom to add them all to /etc/apt/sources.list, and ran apt-get update. It g