Re: problem in upgrade to testing

2001-08-20 Thread James D Strandboge
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 01:41:55AM -0400 or thereabouts, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > Now what? I used to have Ximian GNOME 1.4 installed, but I want to switch to > getting GNOME from woody. > You should probably try to remove ximian, as ximian and woody don't mix (yet). If you force remove th

Re: problem in upgrade to testing

2001-08-20 Thread James Lindenschmidt
Thank you. This helped. I've now been able to do apt-get dist-upgrade followed by apt-get -f install several times. Each time, it gets through a handful (20-30?) packages before it bombs and I have to run the forced install. I'm down to about a hundred packages lef

Re: problem in upgrade to testing

2001-08-19 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi, Just do this. It should work. It's worked for a number of people that I have helped with the same problem on IRC at irc.openprojects.net in #debian. If you visit there, come and say hi to me :-). My nick is longshot. cd /var/cahce/apt/archives dpkg -i libb2*

Re: problem in upgrade to testing

2001-08-19 Thread James Lindenschmidt
OK, after changing my sources.list file to what you have below, I did apt-get clean apt-get autoclean apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade, and when I got the error messages, I did apt-get -f install. It downloaded more packages, but as soon as the downloa

Re: problem in upgrade to testing

2001-08-19 Thread James Lindenschmidt
Thanks muchly! I'm giving it a try now... James D Strandboge Spoke Thusly: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:06:55PM -0400 or thereabouts, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > > > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > >

Re: problem in upgrade to testing

2001-08-19 Thread James D Strandboge
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:06:55PM -0400 or thereabouts, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. > > > Sorry, but the following pack

Re: problem in upgrade to testing

2001-08-19 Thread James Lindenschmidt
I added the line below, and it had no effect. Same error after apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade Thanks, Jim Nathan Weston Spoke Thusly: > Does your sources.list include non-us? The crypto stuff (including libssl) > is hosted on server outside of the US for legal reas

Re: problem in upgrade to testing

2001-08-19 Thread Nathan Weston
Does your sources.list include non-us? The crypto stuff (including libssl) is hosted on server outside of the US for legal reasons. So, you may need to add a line like this: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free Nathan On Sunday 19 August 2001 09:57 p