Bill Harris writes:
> Lisi Reisz writes:
>
>> I would do the dist-upgrade first and clear up any mess remaining afterwards.
> I'll report back, assuming that the results of this adventure don't
> brick my machine /and/ my network. :-)
Well, I didn't quite brick it, but it didn't work too great
Lisi Reisz writes:
> I would do the dist-upgrade first and clear up any mess remaining afterwards.
Thanks, Lisi. I was coming to that conclusion, too, but I was looking
for any sort of confirmation that I wasn't guaranteed to brick the
machine.
I'll report back, assuming that the results of t
On Monday 04 July 2016 21:52:49 Bill Harris wrote:
> Gary Dale writes:
> > On 04/07/16 03:23 PM, Bill Harris wrote:
> >>> The simplest solution would be to reinstall the offending
> >>> packages. Apt-get doesn't have that option but aptitude does. I can't
> >>> try this at home but it may resolve
Bill Harris writes:
> - I have yet to do the `apt dist-upgrade` (I downloaded all the packages
> and then quit), so I've got to do that at some time.
>
> - My question was whether I
>
> - reinstall the packages first, and then do the dist-upgrade later, or
>
> - do the dist-upgrade first, a
Gary Dale writes:
> On 04/07/16 03:23 PM, Bill Harris wrote:
>>> The simplest solution would be to reinstall the offending
>>> packages. Apt-get doesn't have that option but aptitude does. I can't
>>> try this at home but it may resolve the conflicts. Install aptitude
>>> and give it a try.
>>
>
On 04/07/16 03:23 PM, Bill Harris wrote:
Gary Dale writes:
On 04/07/16 12:32 PM, Bill Harris wrote:
Summary:
emacs24(1 bug), dbus(1 bug), gnome-settings-daemon(1 bug), libxml2(1 bug),
debhelper(1 bug), openbsd-inetd(1 bug), smartmontools(1 bug), ruby-hpricot(1
bug), cdrdao(1 bug), libglu
Gary Dale writes:
> On 04/07/16 12:32 PM, Bill Harris wrote:
>> Summary:
>> emacs24(1 bug), dbus(1 bug), gnome-settings-daemon(1 bug), libxml2(1 bug),
>> debhelper(1 bug), openbsd-inetd(1 bug), smartmontools(1 bug), ruby-hpricot(1
>> bug), cdrdao(1 bug), libgluegen2-rt-java(1 bug), ndiff(1 b
Cindy-Sue Causey writes:
> I've used "apt-get install --reinstall" successfully a couple times
> during issues. From "man apt-get", this flag's description is:
>
> "Re-install packages that are already installed and at the newest version."
I thought I had seen that apt could do that. Thanks.
On Mon 04 Jul 2016 at 15:09:35 -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> On 7/4/16, Gary Dale wrote:
> >
> > The simplest solution would be to reinstall the offending packages.
> > Apt-get doesn't have that option but aptitude does. I can't try this at
> > home but it may resolve the conflicts. Install ap
On 7/4/16, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 04/07/16 12:32 PM, Bill Harris wrote:
>> I updated one laptop a month or two ago using the process on
>> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html,
>> and it worked smoothly. Then I tried the same thing yesterday on a
>> secon
On 04/07/16 12:32 PM, Bill Harris wrote:
I updated one laptop a month or two ago using the process on
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html,
and it worked smoothly. Then I tried the same thing yesterday on a
second laptop, except that I forgot to get rid
I updated one laptop a month or two ago using the process on
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html,
and it worked smoothly. Then I tried the same thing yesterday on a
second laptop, except that I forgot to get rid of a wheezy backports
entry; instead, I ju
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