Understanding apt-get. Was Re: Help--potato upgrade flakey with apt-get/dselect

>On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I apologize up front for the length of this post, but am trying to max >> the info for brave souls who may be able to help me... >> >> An upgrade initially using apt-get then finished with deselect has >> left an unknown number of packages possibly

Re: Help--potato upgrade flakey with apt-get/dselect

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I apologize up front for the length of this post, but am trying to max > the info for brave souls who may be able to help me... > > An upgrade initially using apt-get then finished with deselect has > left an unknow

Re: Help--potato upgrade flakey with apt-get/dselect

On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 11:51:02PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 2) And why didn't the dist-upgrade not configure things initially? Would > > "dpkg --configure -a" be a better choice if it happened again? > > If you had noted the error messa

Re: Help--potato upgrade flakey with apt-get/dselect

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2) And why didn't the dist-upgrade not configure things initially? Would > "dpkg --configure -a" be a better choice if it happened again? If you had noted the error messages you would have known that something had failed. In that instance the best t