On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 10:24:22PM -0400, Chase James wrote: > Would changing all mentions of woody to sarge in my apt/sources.list then > doing a dist-upgrade fix the problem: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > aptitude: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2 > E: Broken packages > > I know the Release Notes say to use aptitude, but could I just use apt-get > instead? Could my package system unbreak itself if I just dist-upgraded to > sarge with apt-get?
I don't see why not, but I'm not familiar with the woody->sarge migration. Generally though, in my experience, a sufficient number of apt-get updates && apt-get dist-upgrades usually works (going from mixed testing/unstable to unstable). There seems to be an effort to move more people to using aptitude and that's probably why its recommended. But if you are familiar with apt-get, I can't see the harm in it. Now, if you've been using aptitude all along, you'll likely lose of the automatic package flagging that aptitude does... ymmv. A > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chase James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:57 PM > To: Stephen > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages > > > Actually, I already tried dist-upgrading woody and it still gives me the > aptitude broken package error. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:30 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages > > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 01:18:57PM -0400 or thereabouts, Chase James wrote: > > Andrew, > > > > Yes, I changed every mention of stable to woody so I could upgrade all of > my > > current woody packages before upgrading to sarge. Then I did apt-get > update. > > Shouldn't that be 'apt-get dist-upgrade' ? > > -- > Regards > Stephen > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > +++++ > Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. > -- Mark Twain > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > +++++ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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