I am trying the comand (see below) sequence just to see if it works better than the Progeny->Woody version that repeatedly fails to support pcmcia on my laptop.
This is an upgrade to Unstable. There is one change, on line two "deps" needs to be "depends". Also, under "Configuring PCMCIA" it asks to "Stop PCMCIA support" because for some reason it is "recommended" but "not strictly necessary" ... "that this daemon be stopped". It does say that the system "will lose all access to all PCMCIA devices". Why would I want to do that? I need my PCMCIA devices in case the upgrade is incomplete and I need to download PCMCIA stuff. Or is the assumption that I can reactivate PCMCIA afterwards? (Sure didn't work with the Progeny->Woody upgrade!) I am going to go ahead and keep Cardmgr active but would like to understand the rationale for shutting it down. Thanks! Doc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # apt-get update # dpkg --purge --force-deps libfreetype6 # apt-get -f dist-upgrade You may need to do this a couple of times, but just doing it once worked for me, though I've only tried this on two machines. It's quite a good way to install Debian, if you hate the installer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
