Am 03. Jul, 2001 schwäzte D-Man so: > I used 'dist-upgrade', not 'install apt', a couple weeks ago. I got > the same sort of errors. I tried the '-f' (force) option (as suggested
Actually, -f is --fix-broken. > by some program) and it worked. I then killed it so I could go back to > regular uprade mode (after libc and libstdc++ were upgraded) and had no > real trouble, except that I occasionally got a Sub-process died error. As > suggested, run 'dpkg --reconfigure -a', then kill it because (of course) That should be "dpkg --configure -a". These two commands seem to fix most of the installation issues I run into when dist-upgrading. > the configure will fail with only some packages installed. Restart the > dist-upgrade to continue where it left off before. Note that I may have > been lucky in all of this to not have any disatrous side-effects, and I > probably got some error messages along the way that I solved, and now > don't remember.o Not luck, rather a very good system. Hopefully soon even the two minor fixes you brought up above will be things of the past :). ciao, der.hans -- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.DevelopOnline.com # ... make it clear I support "Free Software" and not "Open Source", # and don't imply I agree that there is such a thing as a # "Linux operating system". - rms
