On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:11:14AM -0500, Shashank Bhide wrote:
>
>
> How do I upgrade from Potato to woody?
>
> What do I need to change in the sources.list file?
The official part of my sources.list file looks like this:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contr
How do I upgrade from Potato to woody?
What do I need to change in the sources.list file?
My sources.list file looks something like this:
# Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work
#deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://non
Hello Shashank!
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 17:40, Shashank Bhide wrote:
> How do I upgrade from Potato to woody?
>
> What do I need to change in the sources.list file?
See
http://www.de.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
for rather detailed hints on
>
> First question: can I force the configure stage of mc ('Setting up
> mc-common (4.5.55-1.2)') to run again, so that I can get the new file?
do u want this ... dpkg-reconfigure mc
>
> I have never got this to work before, but I had hoped it would this
> time, plus I thought it would be n
I have a couple of problems upgrading from potato to woody, using a
14-CD official set (7 binary, 7 source). I followed the instructions at
this address: http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/release-notes/as
recommended in the installation manual.
I first went with the recommended
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:32:03PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
> will writes:
> > seeing lots of this during an "apt-get dist-upgrade" from potato
> > to woddy today:
> >
> >
> >
> > Setting up libxslt1 (1.0.16-0.1) ...
> > ldconfig: /usr/oracle/lib/libvbj30ssl.so is not a shared
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:14:37PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> seeing lots of this during an "apt-get dist-upgrade" from potato
> to woddy today:
>
>
>
> Setting up libxslt1 (1.0.16-0.1) ...
> ldconfig: /usr/oracle/lib/libvbj30ssl.so is not a shared object
> file (Type:
will writes:
> seeing lots of this during an "apt-get dist-upgrade" from potato
> to woddy today:
>
>
>
> Setting up libxslt1 (1.0.16-0.1) ...
> ldconfig: /usr/oracle/lib/libvbj30ssl.so is not a shared object
> file (Type: 768).
>
>
> Setting up libreadline4 (4.2
seeing lots of this during an "apt-get dist-upgrade" from potato
to woddy today:
Setting up libxslt1 (1.0.16-0.1) ...
ldconfig: /usr/oracle/lib/libvbj30ssl.so is not a shared object
file (Type: 768).
Setting up libreadline4 (4.2a-5) ...
ldconfig:
Felipe Martínez Hermo said:
> If that's enough why debian recommends upgrading using dselect?
>
> I tried to upgrade my system using dselect+apt and I had to reinstall the
> whole system to get my system running again.
not sure, I have to admit I don't think i've ever read any of
the debian docu
thanks. I'm trying it right now.
nate wrote:
tjm3 said:
Hello. I'm about to upgrade my system from potato to woody
and was wondering what is the latest recommendation for the
upgrade sequence. I know this has been posted before, but
I haven't come across one lately. Just lo
tjm3 said:
> Hello. I'm about to upgrade my system from potato to woody
> and was wondering what is the latest recommendation for the
> upgrade sequence. I know this has been posted before, but
> I haven't come across one lately. Just looking to get it
> right the first
Hello. I'm about to upgrade my system from potato to woody
and was wondering what is the latest recommendation for the
upgrade sequence. I know this has been posted before, but
I haven't come across one lately. Just looking to get it
right the first time. I think it was to upgrade ap
On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 14:33, Robert James Kaes wrote:
> Hello,
> I just wanted to thank everyone for all the information you supplied. I
> completed the upgrade last night without a problem. I don't think the
> users even noticed. Debian is just wonderful. :)
> -- Robert
>
> --
>
Hello,
I just wanted to thank everyone for all the information you supplied. I
completed the upgrade last night without a problem. I don't think the
users even noticed. Debian is just wonderful. :)
-- Robert
--
--
R
Robert James Kaes wrote:
> Hello,
> Are there any problems with upgrading a machine from potato to woody while
> it's live (in other words, not in single user level.) The machine in
> question is a production machine that I don't not want to have down for
> any long
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 11:40, Robert James Kaes wrote:
> Hello,
> Are there any problems with upgrading a machine from potato to woody while
> it's live
> If there is no problem doing this (upgrading the distro while in run-level
> 3), is there a recommended order? I&#x
Hello,
Are there any problems with upgrading a machine from potato to woody while
it's live (in other words, not in single user level.) The machine in
question is a production machine that I don't not want to have down for
any longer than required.
If there is no problem doing this
> In your XF86Config, is the subsection listed inside a section? On my
> system it is listed inside Section "Module".
>
> --
> Seneca
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for your note above.
In my XF86Config I don't have a Module section, as suggested above. In fact,
the line indicated by the error mess
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 05:55:44PM -0500, Eric Brooks wrote:
> I got the error shown below on moving from potato to woody. I have done
> an apt-get udpate and apt-get dist-upgrade so I assume I'm running an
> X-windows version in synch with the xf86config utility that I ran to
Debian friends,
I got the error shown below on moving from potato to woody. I have done
an apt-get udpate and apt-get dist-upgrade so I assume I'm running an
X-windows version in synch with the xf86config utility that I ran to produce
the XF86Config file. Does anyone have any insight on wh
Hi,
I got the following errors after upg. and configuring:
Setting up findutils (4.1.7-2) Can't locate
File/Basename.pm in @INC (@INC contains: usrlocal/lib/perl/5.6.1
usrlocal/share/perl/5.6.1 usrlib/perl5 usrshare/perl5
usrlib/perl/5.6.1 usrshare/perl/5.6.1
usr/local/lib/site_perl/powerp
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 05:37:20AM +0400, FFF wrote:
> After I dl the necessary files to upg and dselect start installing and
> configuring I got the following errors:
>
> Setting up findutils (4.1.7-2)
> Can't locate File/Basename.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> usrlocal/lib/perl/5.6.1 usrlocal/sha
Hi,
After I dl the necessary files to upg and dselect start installing and
configuring I got the following errors:
Setting up findutils (4.1.7-2)
Can't locate File/Basename.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
usrlocal/lib/perl/5.6.1 usrlocal/share/perl/5.6.1
usrlib/perl5 usrshare/perl5
usrlib/perl/5
"Greg C. Madden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> Second: For obvious reasons, xserver-svga is upgraded, but
> xserver-xfree86 is not installed. This is expected and easy to
> deal with.
Mh, my upgrade was a nightmare. After using dselect, apt-get and dpkg
to excess I finally
* will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020227 05:20]:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:09:55PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> > The only packages that gave me any grief were the KDE ones, as expected.
> > The newer packages had the files rearranged between the different
> > packages, so apt-get was unabl
Matthew Dalton wrote:
>The only packages that gave me any grief were the KDE ones, as expected.
>The newer packages had the files rearranged between the different
>packages, so apt-get was unable to install packages because they were
>attempting to overwrite files from other installed packages. I t
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:09:55PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> I also dist-upgraded my machine from Potato to Woody about two weeks
> ago. However, my machine is a desktop system with heaps of apps
> installed. My experiences were pretty awesome considering what I was up
> aga
hat a blanket dist-upgrade from stable to testing is not as
> | seamless as you suggest, but it has been awhile since I looked at this
> | issue.
>
> It (dist-upgrade) Worked For Me last week. Admittedly it was a router
> type system with not much on it (only 167MB used).
I also d
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:49:50PM -0900, Greg C. Madden wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 07:58, Ed Lawson wrote:
>
> This was posted by Dwarf on the devel list. Slighty edited for brevity.
> http://www.polaris.net/~dwarf/
>
>
> snip
> 2. Before doing the upgrade, but after an 'apt-get update', fi
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 07:58, Ed Lawson wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote:
> >
> >|
> >| Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing'
> >| and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running
> >| Woody. :)
> >
> Hmm
At 12:32 PM 02/26/02 -0500, dman wrote:
>| Hmmm. Isn't it better to first change the sources list, then upgrade
>| Perl, then upgrade apt, dpkg, etc, and then do a dist-upgrade? Seems I
>| have read that a blanket dist-upgrade from stable to testing is not as
>| seamless as you suggest, but it
At 11:58 AM 2/26/02, Ed Lawson wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote:
|
| Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing'
| and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running
| Woody. :)
Hmmm. Isn't it better to first chang
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:58:41AM -0500, Ed Lawson wrote:
|
| >On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote:
| >
| >|
| >| Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing'
| >| and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running
| >| Woody.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote:
|
| Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing'
| and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running
| Woody. :)
Hmmm. Isn't it better to first change the sources list, then upgrade
Pe
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote:
| On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 08:44, Liam Black wrote:
| > I'm currently running potato 2.2.19, and looking to upgrade to Woody. Is
| > there a simplistic way to do this with apt / dpkg? I'm a newbie, and have
| > been spending my time learnin
Absolutely. :)
Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing'
and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running
Woody. :)
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 08:44, Liam Black wrote:
> I'm currently running potato 2.2.19, and looking to upgrade to Woody. Is
> there
I'm currently running potato 2.2.19, and looking to upgrade to Woody. Is
there a simplistic way to do this with apt / dpkg? I'm a newbie, and have
been spending my time learning about the desktop much moreso than tackling
the meat of the system... but that's what I'm attempting to do, now.
So if a
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:48:13PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just wanted to know, as a "normal" user (as in, not completely
> new, but no guru either), how hard would it be to move to woody, or
> sid?
>
> Is it not that difficult? giving the fact that i have a fair knowledge of
> "mov
ct that i have a fair knowledge of
> "moving" around in console, editing files, do some tweaking, etc...
Moving from potato to woody is not too difficult. Sid is broken sometimes
due to bugs but to upgrade to it is just as "easy".
If you installed Debian yourself and kno
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:48:13PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to know, as a "normal" user (as in, not completely
> new, but no guru either), how hard would it be to move to woody, or
> sid?
>
> Is it not that difficult? giving the fact that i have a fair knowledge o
Hi,
I just wanted to know, as a "normal" user (as in, not completely
new, but no guru either), how hard would it be to move to woody, or
sid?
Is it not that difficult? giving the fact that i have a fair knowledge of
"moving" around in console, editing files, do some tweaking, etc...
Thanks!
Uh-oh:
OK, I did it! I have screwed my potato for a broken woody!
The "upgrade" took hours due to updating (all?) kde packages.
And then kaboom: the X11 did not work (and neither xf86setup).
Thus -cmiiw-, I follow the MickeySoft approach, i.e.
reinstall from scratch: it took me about 3 hours.
Que
On 2001.09.05 13:33 Vittorio wrote:
> First question:
> What are the main differences between the two distros?
Woody will become stable in then next months. Now it is the
distri for testing the newer software till it will be real
stable.
Sid is much more unstable. This is the distri for testing
While I'm quite satisfied with my potato 2.2r3 on my laptop, at home
on my celeron desktop I need to install something a bit 'ahead' of
potato (already installed on the desktop!) because I need support for
USB scanner, for that damned i810 motherboard and the Gimp 1.2 and so
on.
I was thinking of
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 02:26:58AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Please, if I'm in the wrong address, may you point to the
> good one?
In the future, please direct questions like this to the debian-user
mailing list.
> I have a big problem in upgrading x
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:17:27PM +0100, Graham Ward wrote:
| I just tried to upgrade my system from potato to woody. I believe
| these are the correct steps:
|
| (1) replace "potato" with "woody" everywhere in /etc/apt/sources.list
| (2) apt-get update
| (3)
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:17:27PM +0100, Graham Ward wrote:
> I just tried to upgrade my system from potato to woody. I believe
> these are the correct steps:
>
> (1) replace "potato" with "woody" everywhere in /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> (2) apt-get
Hi all,
I just tried to upgrade my system from potato to woody. I believe
these are the correct steps:
(1) replace "potato" with "woody" everywhere in /etc/apt/sources.list
(2) apt-get update
(3) apt-get dist-upgrade.
When I do step (3), I see (among other
> Laurent PETIT wrote:
> I tried route : it does'nt work, it doesn't even want to give me the
> prompt,
What about 'route -n'?
'route' by itself does DNS lookups, so maybe that's where your problem
lies (or maybe you can't reach your DNS because of the broken route ;)
Matthew
WHAT I HAVE DONE BEFORE MY PROBLEM:
After a couple of hours, I was able to make what
seemed a good woody installation. No more problem with dselect,
apt.
I upgraded via Internet : my ISDN connection
worked before installation, so did it during the first part (downloading
files).
> Laurent PETIT wrote:
> > > Then re-run your full install. The new debconf will clearly indicate
> > > what package has the broken template file. Then file a bug on that
package.
> >
> > Yes, it worked ! Thanks to Joey Hess.
> > After a couple of hours, so, but it worked.
>
> So did you find the
Laurent PETIT wrote:
> > Then re-run your full install. The new debconf will clearly indicate
> > what package has the broken template file. Then file a bug on that package.
>
> Yes, it worked ! Thanks to Joey Hess.
> After a couple of hours, so, but it worked.
So did you find the broken package
> Laurent PETIT wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> > Template parse error near "" at
/usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60 chunk 3
>
> Upgrade to the debconf in woody (apt-get install debconf).
>
> Then re-run your full install. The new debconf will clearly indicate
> what package has the b
Laurent PETIT wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> Template parse error near "" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm
> line 60 chunk 3
Upgrade to the debconf in woody (apt-get install debconf).
Then re-run your full install. The new debconf will clearly indicate
what package has the broken templ
Hello everybody,
WHAT I HAVE DONE
I'm upgrading from potato to woody.
What I have done is:
- install a potato from the CD's.
I made a simple installation, without X, HTTP servers
- I then installed an external package: conf-isdn-account to
configure my ISDN Car
Hi Karsten !!
- It broke my lilo, leaving me with a missing library
(/lib/ld-linux.so.2).
> I got the file mailed to me by another user, boot using floppies, and
> managed to repair the boot.
So...is your problem resolved or not?
- I managed to solve my missing library problem, but not m
on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:13:26PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I added testing (woody) to my sources.list some days ago and carried
> out an upgrade of my potato box. I got two main problems (amongst others I
> may not noticed so far):
>
> - It broke my lilo, leav
Hi all !
I've been gently adviced to post messages in text only mode, I
apologize for any inconvenience. I'm posting in text only in other Linux
oriented lists already, but I'm new to this list and I forgot to select text
only as default.
Thanks for the responses I already got to m
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:24:53PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote:
> - It broke my lilo, leaving me with a missing library (/lib/ld-linux.so.2). I
> got the file mailed to me by another user, boot using floppies, and managed
> to repair the boot.
Ahhh...I'm running Woody as well. I inserted the
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:24:53PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti scribbled...
> Hi All!
>
> I added testing (woody) to my sources.list some days ago and carried
> out an upgrade of my potato box. I got two main problems (amongst others I
> may not noticed so far):
>
> - It broke my lilo, leavi
I don't know about the lilo isssue but yes the X issue is a well
known problem. Do a apt-get install xserver-xfree86 xbase-clients
(that one might be xclients-base) xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi
xfonts-100dpi and run xf86config to create a xf86config file and
you should be fine.
-- Original
Hi All!
I added testing (woody) to my sources.list some days ago and
carried out an upgrade of my potato box. I got two main problems (amongst others
I may not noticed so far):
- It broke my lilo, leaving
me with a missing library (/lib/ld-linux.so.2). I got the file mailed to me
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
WT> On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:02:43PM +, sena wrote:
>> Hi.. I believe that this must be a FAQ, but here it goes anyway...
>>
>> How can I upgrade from Potato to Woody? I'm thinking of doing the following:
>> 1
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, sena wrote:
> Hi.. I believe that this must be a FAQ, but here it goes anyway...
>
> How can I upgrade from Potato to Woody? I'm thinking of doing the following:
> 1) change all the lines in sources.list from stable to woody;
> 2) running "apt-
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:02:43PM +, sena wrote:
> Hi.. I believe that this must be a FAQ, but here it goes anyway...
>
> How can I upgrade from Potato to Woody? I'm thinking of doing the following:
> 1) change all the lines in sources.list from stable to woody;
>
Hi.. I believe that this must be a FAQ, but here it goes anyway...
How can I upgrade from Potato to Woody? I'm thinking of doing the following:
1) change all the lines in sources.list from stable to woody;
2) running "apt-get update";
3) running "
Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Iain Georgeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I notice I don't have potato-proposed-updates in my sources.list. What
> > can I expect to find in it?
> lynx http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/potato-proposed-updates
> There are (important) updates for
I'm upgrading from potato to woody.
I already did the following steps:
1) Downloaded Woody packages (just like libstdc++2.10, kde2...), and
installed it to run under potato.
2) Downloaded Woody Kernel-Source test5, and built bzImage, so I use
loadlin do boot it with a dos menu. In the dos me
Iain Georgeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I notice I don't have potato-proposed-updates in my sources.list. What
> can I expect to find in it?
lynx http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/potato-proposed-updates
There are (important) updates for the already released version of
Potato.
Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> Oh, you don't have the security and proposed updates enabled, the
> entrys (for potato) are:
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib
> deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian dists/potato-proposed-updates/
I notice I don't have
a word of caution.
if one can't even find out how to upgrade from potato to woody then one
should not be upgrading at all.
unstable is exactly what it says.
just my 2cents.
> -Original Message-
> From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, October 21
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>can someone please tell me how to use apt-get to change my potato to a
>woody? if it makes a difference, my sources.list file is:
[...]
>deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib
>deb-src ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ potato m
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i'd really like to use xfree86 4.0; i might as well just upgrade the whole
> system to woody.
AFAIK, xfree86 isn't already official part of woody, but there are the
phase2 debs...
> can someone please tell me how to use apt-get to change my potato
dear all,
i'd really like to use xfree86 4.0; i might as well just upgrade the whole
system to woody.
can someone please tell me how to use apt-get to change my potato to a
woody? if it makes a difference, my sources.list file is:
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Bin
montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Raghavendra,
>
> Great idea. Yes, I just did it, as root, using the following commands:
>
> # cd /var/cache/apt
> # mkdir sim-logs
> # apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade | cat > sim-logs/apt-sim.txt
This is a bit more complicated than it needs to be. Simply:
Raghavendra,
Great idea. Yes, I just did it, as root, using the following commands:
# cd /var/cache/apt
# mkdir sim-logs
# apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade | cat > sim-logs/apt-sim.txt
then
# less sim-logs/apt-sim.txt
to read it.
Thanks,
montefin
Raghavendra Bhat wrote:
>
> montefin wrote:
montefin wrote:
> I avoided some problems by doing:
> apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade
>
Can U please elaborate on this ? Can U
pipe this to get some sort of a log ?
Tnx for this nifty point..real good !!
--
ragOO, VU2RGU
Keeping the Air-Waves FREE.Amateur Radio
Keeping the W W W FREE
Rick,
Er...one small departure. After upgrading from potato to woody, I found
I avoided some problems by doing:
apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade
Then identifying the packages I really wanted and doing:
apt-get upgrade
then apt-get install .
As opposed to doing:
apt-get dist-upgrade.
But
1. Edit sources.list pointing to woody|unstable instead of potato|stable.
2. apt-get update
3. apt-get dist-upgrade
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:19:55PM -0500, Daniel E. Baumann wrote:
> O.K. Here is a question that I am sure has been asked before, but I could not
> find a concise enough answer. If
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Daniel E. Baumann wrote:
> O.K. Here is a question that I am sure has been asked before, but I could not
> find a concise enough answer. If I was to upgrade to woody from potato (or
> to do a general distribution ugrade in Debian from whatever to whatever) what
> are the steps
O.K. Here is a question that I am sure has been asked before, but I could not
find a concise enough answer. If I was to upgrade to woody from potato (or
to do a general distribution ugrade in Debian from whatever to whatever) what
are the steps that I would take, would it be:
1) change sources.li
hi,
If I wanted to upgrade from potato (kernel version 2.2.13) to woody,
what steps do I have to do in order to accomplish this?
thanks.
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