Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-25 Thread Ron Rademaker
That's about it, apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade And... finished! Ron On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 04:43:38 +0100 (CET), Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: > > > Try downloading the g++ package manually (version 2.91.58 or greater) and >

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 12:54:37AM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 04:43:38 +0100 (CET), Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: > > > Try downloading the g++ package manually (version 2.91.58 or greater) and > > installing it using dpkg. > > > Another (brute force)

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-25 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 04:43:38 +0100 (CET), Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Try downloading the g++ package manually (version 2.91.58 or greater) and > installing it using dpkg. > Another (brute force) solution would be dpkg -i --force-depends *, > again: I don't wish to be held respo

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-25 Thread Ron Rademaker
I've only once upgraded from hamm to slink and I haven't encountered any problems with that upgrade... i fyou encounter any upgrades just post them on this thread (or start another apt or dpkg thread because I read most of them). Ron On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > In case I

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-25 Thread Ron Rademaker
Try downloading the g++ package manually (version 2.91.58 or greater) and installing it using dpkg. Another (brute force) solution would be dpkg -i --force-depends *, again: I don't wish to be held responsible for anything that might go wrong! Ron On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
In case I want to upgrade to potato, are the same recommendations for upgrading to slink valid? Like, not upgrading from X, but from text mode... And... Anything else? Thanks a lot! j. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:20:59 +0100 (CET), Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: What did you mean by "go to the main/base and later to the main/lib"? If you meant subdirectories, there was none in /var/cache/apt/archives. Anyway, I did what you said a few times, but even though bluefish wa

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
I know the upgrading process to potato can be a real pain in the ass, but I think it's worth it. Ron On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:11:40 +0100 (CET), Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: > > > Why afraid of upgrading? Potato works fine with me

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:11:40 +0100 (CET), Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Why afraid of upgrading? Potato works fine with me... not stable yet okay, > but also not unstable! Well... I'm not exactly afraid of potato... I'm afraid of the upgrading process! I've had a few problems usin

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-24 Thread Ron Rademaker
I'll just answer you first question and I think that'll solve your second as well. I had a similar problem and I fixed, quite brute force I must say but all works fine now. apt downloads all your deb packages in /var/cache/apt/archives, so I just went there, to the main/base section and did: dpk

apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

2000-03-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello; I have 2 problems... I'm currently running slink, and: 1) I wanted to upgrade bluefish. But I wnted the version which comes with potato. So I thought, "Well, if apt-get handles dependencies correctly, I just have to add frozen to my mirrors list, and it'll get whatever packages