Re: upgrade from potato to woody

2003-08-14 Thread ScruLoose
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

upgrade from potato to woody

2003-08-10 Thread Shashank Bhide
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

Re: upgrade from potato to woody

2003-08-07 Thread Florian Ernst
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

Re: UPDATE: debian potato to woody transition

2003-08-05 Thread Shashank Bhide
o a system and had several problems while doing so. I am actually assigned the task of upgrading two of the production servers from potato to woody, and which is why I wanted to install the old stable. I am a complete newbie to debian and would like to learn as much as I can while doing the testi

Re: UPDATE: debian potato to woody transition

2003-08-04 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 17:18, Shashank Bhide wrote: > Hi all, > I was able to install Debian 2.2.26 on my system (Potato). I could not get > my network card to work once the system started up. I used all the drivers > 1-4 but apparently the drivers for my network card were not loaded. While > boo

Re: UPDATE: debian potato to woody transition

2003-08-04 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Shashank Bhide (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I was able to install Debian 2.2.26 on my system (Potato). I could not > get my network card to work once the system started up. I used all the > drivers 1-4 but apparently the drivers for my network card were not > loaded. While booting up, the

UPDATE: debian potato to woody transition

2003-08-04 Thread Shashank Bhide
am actually assigned the task of upgrading two of the production servers from potato to woody, and which is why I wanted to install the old stable. I am a complete newbie to debian and would like to learn as much as I can while doing the testing. How does apt-get affect mysql databases and

debian potato to woody transition

2003-08-04 Thread Shashank Bhide
Hello all, I was earlier trying to get potato installed on to a system and had several problems while doing so. I am actually assigned the task of upgrading two of the production servers from potato to woody, and which is why I wanted to install the old stable. I am a complete newbie to

Re: Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2003-06-04 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> > 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

Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2003-06-04 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
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

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade

2003-03-22 Thread David Z Maze
Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I currently have Potato installed, and a stack of > Woody CD's, how do I upgrade from Potato to Woody? > > Do I have to just install over Potato? > > Or, does apt-get or dpkg allow a more graceful upgrade > in some automatic

Potato to Woody upgrade

2003-03-22 Thread Larry
If I currently have Potato installed, and a stack of Woody CD's, how do I upgrade from Potato to Woody? Do I have to just install over Potato? Or, does apt-get or dpkg allow a more graceful upgrade in some automatic fashion? If there's an upgrade method, will it goof up things l

Re: dist-upgrade (from potato to woody) snag

2002-11-24 Thread will trillich
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

Re: dist-upgrade (from potato to woody) snag

2002-11-24 Thread will trillich
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:

Re: dist-upgrade (from potato to woody) snag

2002-11-24 Thread Elizabeth Barham
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

dist-upgrade (from potato to woody) snag

2002-11-24 Thread will trillich
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:

Re: Upgrade from potato to woody?

2002-11-20 Thread nate
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

Re: Upgrade from potato to woody?

2002-11-18 Thread tjm3
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

Re: Upgrade from potato to woody?

2002-11-18 Thread nate
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

Upgrade from potato to woody?

2002-11-18 Thread tjm3
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

Re: potato to woody upgrade problem

2002-10-22 Thread D.U.
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:07:00PM -0700, nate wrote: > D.U. said: > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:26:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > If I comment out eepro from /etc/modules, my box boots up under the 2.4 > > kernels and I can log in. An odd thing I just noticed is there are no > > mod

Re: potato to woody upgrade problem

2002-10-22 Thread Donald R. Spoon
nate wrote: D.U. said: On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:26:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I comment out eepro from /etc/modules, my box boots up under the 2.4 kernels and I can log in. An odd thing I just noticed is there are no modules loaded at all. However, I can insmod eepro if I giv

Re: potato to woody upgrade problem

2002-10-22 Thread nate
D.U. said: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:26:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I comment out eepro from /etc/modules, my box boots up under the 2.4 > kernels and I can log in. An odd thing I just noticed is there are no > modules loaded at all. However, I can insmod eepro if I > give it the

Re: potato to woody upgrade problem

2002-10-22 Thread D.U.
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:26:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The release notes didn't say there were any problems going > > from 2.2 to 2.4. What did I forget to do? > > If you modified /etc/lilo.conf to add the new kernel, did you remember to > type "lilo" before rebooting? Not doin

Re: potato to woody upgrade problem

2002-10-22 Thread nate
D.U. said: > I searched but didn't find anything in google... > > I upgraded a box to 3.0 and that part went fine. But then I > upgraded to the standard 2.4.18 kernel image deb (from a 2.2 > kernel. did you add the initrd option to lilo.conf? the 2.4 kernel (at least the default one) has a real bi

potato to woody upgrade problem

2002-10-22 Thread levi . waldron
> The release notes didn't say there were any problems going > from 2.2 to 2.4. What did I forget to do? If you modified /etc/lilo.conf to add the new kernel, did you remember to type "lilo" before rebooting? Not doing this will lock it up for sure. The bootdisk-HOWTO tells you what various LIL

potato to woody upgrade problem

2002-10-22 Thread D.U.
I searched but didn't find anything in google... I upgraded a box to 3.0 and that part went fine. But then I upgraded to the standard 2.4.18 kernel image deb (from a 2.2 kernel. I installed the matching initrd package too. At first I tried the k6 kernel, and I tried the 2.4bf kernel and got the

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Upgrading from Potato to Woody on a Live Machine

2002-09-29 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
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 > > -- >

[SOLVED] Re: Upgrading from Potato to Woody on a Live Machine

2002-09-29 Thread Robert James Kaes
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

Re: Upgrading from Potato to Woody on a Live Machine

2002-09-27 Thread Donald R. Spoon
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

Re: Upgrading from Potato to Woody on a Live Machine

2002-09-27 Thread Tony Wasson
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

Upgrading from Potato to Woody on a Live Machine

2002-09-27 Thread Robert James Kaes
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

Potato to Woody upgrade always breaks KDE

2002-09-11 Thread Glenn Murray
I've upgraded potato to woody on five computers (two of them were complete reinstalls) and on all of them KDE dies a slow death. I notice the problem mostly with Konqueror. For example, after using KDE and Konqueror for some time (1-20 minutes) I'll click on a Konqueror menu, the

Re: upgrading potato to woody by CD (fwd)

2002-06-25 Thread H C Pumphrey
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, H C Pumphrey wrote: [Upgrading potato to Woody via CD does this:] > > and after getting to some 50% it displayed: > > E: Internal Error, Could not configure a pre-depend Typically, after deciding I was stumped and posting this message, I decided to have ano

upgrading potato to woody by CD (fwd)

2002-06-25 Thread H C Pumphrey
Hi All, I asked this in Debian-CD and no-one seemed to know, so I thought I'd ask the wider commmunity and see if anyone else had seen the same thing. A month or so ago, Marcin Wolinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried to upgrade a Potato system to Woody using the 3.0pre6 > version of D

Re: X11 Config Error on Moving from Potato to Woody

2002-06-10 Thread Eric Brooks
> 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

Re: X11 Config Error on Moving from Potato to Woody

2002-06-10 Thread Seneca
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

X11 Config Error on Moving from Potato to Woody

2002-06-10 Thread Eric Brooks
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

Re: Upgrade Potato to Woody (3.0)

2002-05-17 Thread Lukas Ruf
, I can use neither dselect: > (snip) > > nor apt-get > (snip) > > dpkg still works and I can use the network .-) > > > > Has anyone any idea? > > Have you tried manually installing the "apt" and/or "apt-utils" package > from Woody? I see

Re: (fwd) Re: Upgrade Potato to Woody (3.0)

2002-05-15 Thread Jamin W . Collins
ther dselect: (snip) > nor apt-get (snip) > dpkg still works and I can use the network .-) > > Has anyone any idea? Have you tried manually installing the "apt" and/or "apt-utils" package from Woody? I seem to recall seeing this as a recommended step prior to

(fwd) Re: Upgrade Potato to Woody (3.0)

2002-05-15 Thread Lukas Ruf
): apt-get update E: Method ftp has died unexpectedly! E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object dpkg still works and I can use the network .-) Has anyone any idea? Thanks for any help! Lukas - Forwarded message from Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Subject: Re: Upgrade Potato to Wood

potato to woody upgrade again

2002-05-07 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I upgraded from potato to woody today following the release notes and this is what I found. The potato system was development tools and X and that's about it. The install went fine and post install I followed the directions exactly and found the following: 1. dpkg --conf

Re: POTATO to WOODY: reinstall vs. upgrade test result

2002-05-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
ve > a simple X11 system with KDE (potato) and default settings. The > list of 262 packages to install are available at > http://vLSM.org/etc/sangam.vlsm.org.20020430.gz > > FYI, the recommended upgrade procedure includes a step you've omitted below: > 1. Test #1 (up

POTATO to WOODY: reinstall vs. upgrade test result

2002-05-01 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
ackages to install are available at http://vLSM.org/etc/sangam.vlsm.org.20020430.gz 1. Test #1 (upgrade) Method: - change "potato" to "woody" in /etc/apt/sources.list - run apt-get update - run apt-get dist-upgrade - fine tuning using dselect Result:

Can't resolve DNS after potato to woody upgrade

2002-04-04 Thread Ed Kleckner
I tried an upgrade from potato 2.2r3 to woody and all seemed to go well except that after connecting to my ISP with ppp via phone dialup I can't resolve any names. This use to work fine under potato. I can ping the numerical addresses fine, but for example a ping to debian.org fails. I did a rout

Post-installation probs after upg from potato to woody

2002-03-31 Thread FFF
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

Re: Troubles after upg from potato to woody

2002-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
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

Troubles after upg from potato to woody

2002-03-31 Thread FFF
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

Re: potato to woody 2nd try

2002-03-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:31:09PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > >> Hi, I followed a suggestion from this list to update dpkg and apt >> first during the upgrade. For the most part this worked great. A >> couple of small things. >> >> Unless I pushed the wrong button

Re: potato to woody 2nd try

2002-03-09 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:31:09PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi, > I followed a suggestion from this list to update dpkg and apt first > during the upgrade. For the most part this worked great. A couple of > small things. > > Unless I pushed the wrong button and refused a new kernel, 2.2.2

potato to woody 2nd try

2002-03-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I followed a suggestion from this list to update dpkg and apt first during the upgrade. For the most part this worked great. A couple of small things. Unless I pushed the wrong button and refused a new kernel, 2.2.20 was not installed during the dist-upgrade. When installing a few more

Re: I killed X11 (potato-to-woody)

2002-03-07 Thread user list
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 07:19:44PM -0700, user list wrote: > So I'm in some very deep trouble. I upgraded Xfree86 to the 4.1 level in > potato without making a debian package. Then, when I tried to install xine > from the testing tree I hosed the system. I have now done a complete > system upgrade

I killed X11 (potato-to-woody)

2002-03-06 Thread user list
So I'm in some very deep trouble. I upgraded Xfree86 to the 4.1 level in potato without making a debian package. Then, when I tried to install xine from the testing tree I hosed the system. I have now done a complete system upgrade to testing and everything works except X11 (a big exception). When

XFree 4.1.0 and I128 (was How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?)

2002-03-02 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
"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

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* 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

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
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

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-27 Thread will trillich
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

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Matthew Dalton
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

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Gary L. Dolan
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

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Greg C. Madden
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

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Bill Moseley
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

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Chris Jenks
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

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread dman
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.

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Ed Lawson
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

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread dman
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

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread David Bell
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

How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Liam Black
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

upgrading potato to woody

2002-02-23 Thread Sam Varghese
Thank you Osamu Aoki for your go-woody script. Without it I would never have upgraded to woody until it became the stable release. It took 48 hours over a ppp connection - with nobody to hit a return key at times because I was away at work - but it worked. Thanks dman for your helpful posts - when

Re: Potato to Woody Notes/Comments

2002-02-21 Thread Eric Richardson
Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:13:04AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: >> >> Is it possible to create a upgrade-woody package that depends on >> dpkg and apt and any other prerequisites that loads them and >> then as a post process starts apt-get(the new version) to do the >> a

Re: Potato to Woody Notes/Comments

2002-02-21 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:13:04AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: | Thought I'd post my experiences here with my Potato to Woody | upgrade. Given the recent number of posts discussing potato->woody, I think I'll post my (recent) experience as well. Presumably most of the posts w

Re: Potato to Woody Notes/Comments

2002-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:13:04AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > Thought I'd post my experiences here with my Potato to Woody upgrade. > Being a idiot, I haven't followed this list for awhile and didn't read > the release notes until after the upgrade but I

Potato to Woody Notes/Comments

2002-02-21 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, Thought I'd post my experiences here with my Potato to Woody upgrade. Being a idiot, I haven't followed this list for awhile and didn't read the release notes until after the upgrade but I think the results may be interesting nonetheless. Unfortunately I didn't use the

Re: help with potato to woody upgrade please

2002-02-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 01:01:30AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:38:47AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I want to upgrade my system from Potato to Woody. I am confused by the > > instructions. In particular, the instructions about the changes that I >

Re: help with potato to woody upgrade please

2002-02-10 Thread Chris Jenks
Comments are in line. At 03:38 AM 2/10/02, Paul E Condon wrote: I want to upgrade my system from Potato to Woody. I am confused by the instructions. In particular, the instructions about the changes that I need to make to /etc/apt/sources.list The six non-comment lines in my current sources

Re: help with potato to woody upgrade please

2002-02-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:38:47AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > I want to upgrade my system from Potato to Woody. I am confused by the > instructions. In particular, the instructions about the changes that I > need to make to /etc/apt/sources.list What is jigdo? I do not see that p

help with potato to woody upgrade please

2002-02-10 Thread Paul E Condon
I want to upgrade my system from Potato to Woody. I am confused by the instructions. In particular, the instructions about the changes that I need to make to /etc/apt/sources.list The six non-comment lines in my current sources are: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r5 _Potato_ - Official i386

Re: moving from potato to woody (or sid)

2002-01-27 Thread Rob Mahurin
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

Re: moving from potato to woody (or sid)

2002-01-27 Thread Adam Majer
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

Re: moving from potato to woody (or sid)

2002-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
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

moving from potato to woody (or sid)

2002-01-26 Thread camilo
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!

Potato to Woody

2001-12-19 Thread Akintayo Holder
Paul E Condon wrote: I have a Debian Potato. I would like to use Balsa 1.2.3, which is available as part of Debian Woody. I have read in many places that an upgrade from potato to woody is easy, but I must be missing something. apt-get dist-upgrade is not enough. What am I missing? Paul

Re: something missing when upgrading potato to woody.

2001-12-19 Thread Shaul Karl
> I have a Debian Potato. I would like to use Balsa 1.2.3, which is > available as > part of Debian Woody. I have read in many places that an upgrade > from potato to > woody is easy, but I must be missing something. > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > is not enough. Wh

Potato to Woody Upgrade:WARNING

2001-10-31 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
I attempted to dist-upgrade from potato to Woody, and I got the following message: THe following essential packages will be removed: sysvinit util-linux (due to sysvinit) This should NOT be done . How does one proceed from here? Thanks. -- Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry

The X11 Nightmare is over: from potato to woody back to potato

2001-09-18 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
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

Re: From potato to woody (or sid?)

2001-09-05 Thread Timeboy
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

From potato to woody (or sid?)

2001-09-05 Thread Vittorio
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

Re: potato to woody troubles

2001-08-23 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 11:30:00PM -0400, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm trying to upgrade my potato box to woody so I can run KDE 2.2. I'd also > like to upgrade to Xfree86 4.x. I tried using apt-get, but I'm getting an > error message and having trouble tracking it down. > >

Re: Potato to woody problem

2001-08-20 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:25:49PM -0700, tluxt wrote: | > The correct solution to this is to | > | > apt-get install libdb2 | > | > since that package provides libdb.so.3. | | 1. Are you _sure_ installing the libdb2 package ___that W/testing | currently points to___ will solve this p

Re: Potato to woody problem

2001-08-20 Thread tluxt
Thanks dman for you response on this issue. ... But, ... (I'm in the process of learning about this now - would you please help me out?) --- dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:38:07AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: > | I changed the references in my apt/sources.list to po

Re: Potato to woody problem

2001-08-20 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:38:07AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: | I changed the references in my apt/sources.list to point to woody. | | I then did a | apt-get update | apt-get install apt-utils debconf | apt-get dist-upgrade | | When I did the apt-get install apt-utils debconf it told me to type

Potato to Woody

2001-08-20 Thread Brian Schramm
OK. I just read a message about the same problem that I am having. I looked at the lib directory and found out that the sym link was pointing to a file not there. So, I changed that. It let me get past the point of it complaining about the perl library but now I at a missing file. /usr/bin/dkp

Potato to woody problem

2001-08-20 Thread Brian Schramm
I changed the references in my apt/sources.list to point to woody. I then did a apt-get update apt-get install apt-utils debconf apt-get dist-upgrade When I did the apt-get install apt-utils debconf it told me to type Yes, do as I say! to upgrade the pearl system. I did that and now I keep gett

Re: potato to woody troubles

2001-08-18 Thread Todd V . Rovito
I just got the same setup to work on my computer without upgrading to woody, have you thought about that. Just follow the steps below. 0) Compile and install the 2.2.19 kernel 1) Download the binary packages of X from xfree86.org and install 2) Download kde 2.2. Compile and install. Follow the dire

Re: potato to woody troubles

2001-08-18 Thread James D Strandboge
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 11:30:00PM -0400 or thereabouts, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > liborbit-dev: Conflicts: orbit (< 0.4.3-2) but 1:0.5.8-ximian.1 is to be Take the ximian lines out of sources.list, and I would recommend removing all the ximian stuff before the upgrade. Also your sources.l

potato to woody troubles

2001-08-18 Thread James Lindenschmidt
Greetings, I'm trying to upgrade my potato box to woody so I can run KDE 2.2. I'd also like to upgrade to Xfree86 4.x. I tried using apt-get, but I'm getting an error message and having trouble tracking it down. I added these sites to my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debi

Re: problems in upgrading xdm from potato to woody.

2001-08-11 Thread Branden Robinson
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

RE: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel

2001-08-06 Thread Stephen Nosal
reason somewhere... now my curiosity is peaked. - Steve -Original Message- From: Michael Heldebrant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 4:08 PM To: Stephen Nosal Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel I'm inter

Re: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel

2001-08-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 03:10:28PM -0400, Stephen Nosal wrote: > Mike - > > so the initrd showed up in the kernel-image package along with instructions. > > Perhaps I should try this again and see if I'm missing something. Otherwise, > I guess I'll just have to compile my own... Hmm. Looking

RE: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel

2001-08-06 Thread Michael Heldebrant
PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 2:11 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel > > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:49:09PM -0400, Stephen Nosal wrote: > > so, is it possible that the standard build requires a ra

Re: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel

2001-08-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 02:09:51PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:50:39AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > In this case, the difference is whether you're installing a debian > > kernel-image or compiling your own. The kernel images require an > > initrd. When you c

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