Re: upgrade from hamm to slink

1999-02-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Micha Feigin wrote: > > How do i upgrade from hamm to slink? For a newcomer, it might be better for you to wait untill slink is officially released as Debian 2.1. Then you can get a CD of slink and install it. If you are currently using dselect to update against hamm v

upgrade from hamm to slink

1999-02-22 Thread Micha Feigin
How do i upgrade from hamm to slink?

Re: Lost libc5 stuff after upgrade from hamm to slink

1999-02-18 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Athanasius wrote: > > Hi, saw your message on the debian list, just have a question, hope you > don't mind. Did Netscape also have problems after you removed libc5? When > I got libc6, it took out both wordperfect and netscape. Unlike yours, > however, mine said that it couldn't find libXt.so.5

Re: Lost libc5 stuff after upgrade from hamm to slink

1999-02-14 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks Bob! That did the trick. I only had the libc5 package loaded. When I loaded the xlib6 and xpm4.7 everything started working again. Thanks again for your help! Doug Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I was in the process of ge

Re: Lost libc5 stuff after upgrade from hamm to slink

1999-02-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > Hello, > > I was in the process of getting my system into a good configuration to > install my sound card. In the process of doing this, I switched from > the hamm distribution to the slink. Everything seemed to work ok during > the dselect thin

Lost libc5 stuff after upgrade from hamm to slink

1999-02-14 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I was in the process of getting my system into a good configuration to install my sound card. In the process of doing this, I switched from the hamm distribution to the slink. Everything seemed to work ok during the dselect thing, but when I finished, my wordperfect 8 nolonger functioned.

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > > 7) Safe inter-dist upgrades, rexx-slink, bo-slink, hamm-slink and others > > As well as making dselect safer to use for these upgrades should you > > choose to go that way (not recommended!) > > Why are you saying not recommended? Are yo

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Mark Phillips
> > So what advantage is there of running apt-get over the more > > traditional - run mirror, then install using dselect? > > mirror?!?! You want to mirror the entire 700 meg binary-386 directory and > then install it?? Ik. Yes you do have a point here. The advantage of doing this of course is,

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Michael Lea
At 08:46 PM 1/19/99 -0700, you wrote: > >On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > >> > >What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle? >> > >> > apt-get will pick up the download when you re-connect, keeping >> > downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives with partial downloads >> > in [..

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > What happens if you don't have enough disk space?!! > > > > Well space in the archive is checked before download begins so it probably > > shouldn't happen. But if you run out then it will abort will lots of > > errors and never call dpkg. If you r

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Mark Phillips
> > What happens if you don't have enough disk space?!! > > Well space in the archive is checked before download begins so it probably > shouldn't happen. But if you run out then it will abort will lots of > errors and never call dpkg. If you run dpkg and then run out you -should- > be fine but st

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > > >What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle? > > > > apt-get will pick up the download when you re-connect, keeping > > downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives with partial downloads > > in [...]/partial. It doesn't install a thing until

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Mark Phillips
> > >What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle? > > apt-get will pick up the download when you re-connect, keeping > downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives with partial downloads > in [...]/partial. It doesn't install a thing until it's downloaded > the lot, so make sure you have en

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Ben Messinger wrote: > This happened to me, and apt did resume and finish - but the package > that it was getting when the ppp link was severed got corrupted (or > incomplete download). All other packages were ok, but this was the cause > of much sorrow when the corrupt packa

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Ben Messinger
Rafael Kitover wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 05:47:49PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I've just installed the slink version of apt-get. Am I right in > > thinking that to upgrade to slink, I should run: > > > > apt-get update > > apt-get dist-upgrade snip > > > > What hap

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 19 Jan 99 07:17:49 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Phillips) wrote: >I've just installed the slink version of apt-get. Am I right in >thinking that to upgrade to slink, I should run: > >apt-get update >apt-get dist-upgrade Yep. >Is this at all dangerous? Slink hasn't been released officially,

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-19 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 19 Jan 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > MH> Does anyone know roughly what size an upgrade from hamm to slink > MH> is? > > Don't call apt-get dist-upgrade directly. > > Better use the apt method in dselect. (update, select, install) > > There have be

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-19 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On 19 Jan 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > >> "MH" == Mark Herrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MH> Does anyone know roughly what size an upgrade from hamm to slink > MH> is? > > Don't call apt-get dist-upgrade directly. > > Bette

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MH" == Mark Herrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MH> Does anyone know roughly what size an upgrade from hamm to slink MH> is? Don't call apt-get dist-upgrade directly. Better use the apt method in dselect. (update, select, install) There have been package s

RE: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-19 Thread Mark Herrick
Does anyone know roughly what size an upgrade from hamm to slink is? > -- > From: Rafael Kitover[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 8:53 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to sli

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-19 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 05:47:49PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > > Hi, > > I've just installed the slink version of apt-get. Am I right in > thinking that to upgrade to slink, I should run: > > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list is set to get files from

apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-19 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I've just installed the slink version of apt-get. Am I right in thinking that to upgrade to slink, I should run: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade Is this at all dangerous? What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle? Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\__