On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 the mental interface of Eric Dickner told: > Hello, > > I have a Woody 2.2.20-idepci system running on a Dell > that I am trying to upgrade to 2.4.x (Sarge, or > testing) with mixed results. > > At first I felt that I should download source and > recompile the kernels, and I did that, but those > kernels did not match any Debian patched headers, > which I need. Those kernels run OK but I'm not able > to compile and add the modules that I need/like. > > The advice I got here was to use this procedure: > > "Change Woody to Sarge in sources.list" > > I assumed this meant change "stable" to "testing" > which is what I did. > > "apt-get update" This when fine. > > "apt-get dist-upgrade" This did not connect... > > It immediately went through my dependency tree and > gave me a list of packages to "apt-get -f install". I > thought the power of "apt-get" was that it figured out > what packages you needed and got them automatically?
The power of apt is to inform the user if the database isn't
consistent. Just type apt-get install -f and after that retype
apt-get dist-upgrade ;-)
HTH
Elimar
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