Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I used dselect to upgrade because I did not see any talk about the apt-get upgrade command in time...
My system now seems to have some "issues" I need to work through. I do not receive any perl warning at this moment, so I think I will concentrate on fixing the warning I am getting. Doug Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 09:27:06AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > I finally decided to try potato because I wanted an easy way of getting > > the latest postgresql (6.5)... > > > > I was running slink and used dselect to upgrade. > > > > The biggest problem it seemed to find was a change in perl (DB1.85 -> > > DB2). It said something about using perl-5.004 to dump the DB1.85 > > databases and then reload perl5.005 or use db_dump185(1) and db_load(1) > > in libc6... > > > > What is this talking about? I only have perl loaded on my system > > because some other package required it. I am not sure what databases > > this is talking about. Any ideas? > > > > I have seen some references to using "apt" to install programs. Which > > method is the best for someone who doesn't play with this stuff very > > often - dselect or apt? > > > > Best solution for upgrading distributions is `apt-get dist-upgrade' > but not currently!!! > > Following suggestions on debian-list I did upgrade from slink to potato last > night using `apt-get upgrade'. > > I had only to hold libmime-base package (new version depends on perl5.005) > and upgraded with some troubles - four conflicts like: > > Unpacking replacement manpages-dev ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/manpages-dev_1.23-1_all.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite /usr/man/man3/btree.3.gz', which is also in package > glibc-doc > > I solved they by temporary removing of package or by concurrent installing > `dpkg -i package1 package2' > > My `new' system wasn't pure potato distribution because some packages were > obsolete. I went to dselect and analysed problems. I purged some not needed > packages. > > I did one mistake: xntp3* packages are replaced by ntp*. I marked xntp3 to > purge and ntp to install. After installing I saw that xntp3 and some other > packages were only removed not purged. I did `dpkg --purge ...' and > /etc/ntp.conf went away because it was xntp3 conf-file and ntp hasn't it. > But I have backup of /etc :) > > Mirek > > I
