Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

2005-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > Don't use dselect for distribution upgrades. Use apt-get directly, e.g. > > apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade As others have pointed out already, this isn't recommended by the release notes either. The suggested upgrade path is to use the version of aptitude f

Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

2005-06-16 Thread Luiz Regis Emediato
Hi Brian, Hi Maurits, Hi Kent, Hi Paolo, I will try the commands you recommended as soon as I have time to work on the system. Thanks for the directions. I will post the results here. I am also reading the document suggested by Maurits. thanks Luiz Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: Just used ap

Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

2005-06-15 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On 6/15/05, Luiz Emediato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I used dselect in order to upgrade from version 3.0 to 3.1. > I let dselect do it by its own: 956 new upgrade packages were > download but when it tries to install them many errors appear > specially about libc6 C++ and also errors

Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

2005-06-15 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
Just used aptitude update aptitude dist-upgrade to upgrade from the unstable archive. Worked like a charm without any hitches. Brian

big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

2005-06-15 Thread Luiz Emediato
Hi all, I used dselect in order to upgrade from version 3.0 to 3.1. I let dselect do it by its own: 956 new upgrade packages were download but when it tries to install them many errors appear specially about libc6 C++ and also errors about broken unpacking. I still can log in to the old 3.0 fortu

Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

2005-06-15 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
Hi Luiz, I had similar trouble. This is what I ended up doing based on the advice of others in this list. apt-get autoclean; this will clean up your cache directory, good thing to do every once in a while but no required. apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade Thanks go to Roberto C. Sanche

Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

2005-06-15 Thread Kent West
Luiz Regis Emediato wrote: > I used dselect in order to upgrade from version 3.0 to 3.1. > I let dselect do it by its own: 956 new upgrade packages were > download but when it tries to install them many errors appear > specially about libc6 C++ and also errors about broken > unpacking. I still can

Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

2005-06-15 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:47:44AM -0300, Luiz Regis Emediato wrote: > I used dselect in order to upgrade from version 3.0 to 3.1. > I let dselect do it by its own: 956 new upgrade packages were > download but when it tries to install them many errors appear > specially about libc6 C++ and also err

big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

2005-06-15 Thread Luiz Regis Emediato
Hi all, I used dselect in order to upgrade from version 3.0 to 3.1. I let dselect do it by its own: 956 new upgrade packages were download but when it tries to install them many errors appear specially about libc6 C++ and also errors about broken unpacking. I still can log in to the old 3.0 fortu