I started (over) with a clean system, installed 2.2 from CDroms, added a
few packages (Apache, ntop, wuftp, gnome,..).
I got several unresolved dependencies reported by dselect, but what to do?
I wanted a few unsupported packages, so I added a ../woody/ line to
/etc/apt/source/list, and did apt-get update, and dist-upgrade.
Oops; it took about 10 passes to get all the files (220M); many many 400
not founds, 404 file errors, lost connections, etc. Anyway, a day later all
was there, and it started updating. At the end it reported a bunch of
missing dependencies and thus install failures. I ran the cycle again, and
it downloaded another 20M, and in install gave another bunch of problems.
Well, after about 5 cycles, it seems to be in such a mess (it now reports
perl may not be installed properly), that it seems like I need to start all
over.
What went wrong here?
[I had a similar experience upgrading the sibling machine, but after a few
cycles it resolved itself.]
I think I didn't do anything wrong, since all I did was to select a few
dselect packages, and let apt do the work (make a mess..!).
1) Any ideas on how to avoid such snafu's!
2) any ideas for a recovery; or just give up.
3) how stable is woody, on a scale of 0-100%?
4) Can I get only one package from Woody, without upgrading the whole
distribution?
Thanks,
Gregory Guthrie
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Dr. Gregory Guthrie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (641)472-1125 Fax: -1103
Computer Science Department
School of Computing and Information Science
Maharishi University of Management
(Maharishi International University 1971-1995)
http://www.mum.edu/cs_dept
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