On Sunday 06 February 2011 12:13:33 pm Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze on my AMD64 box. It did work but I > got some grumbles about the package grabbing applet not being able to > find some files it wanted from the repositories and some grumbling > about one or two disorganised package dependencies in Openoffice and > other minor grumbles. > > But I am running it nevertheless. What commands could I run to do a > sort of upgrade health check? Something like aptitude > sniff-out-bad-dependencies > and aptitude try-to-repair-them-if -possible? > > I used the mirror.ox.ac.uk as the repository. ftp.uk.debian.org > seemed to be out of commission for a while but I think it is working > again now. > > Comments appreciated. > > Michael Fothergill > > P.S. The window managing program that starts xwindows automatically > from the login prompt doesn't seem to have installed so I am having to > type startx at the terminal but then gnome fires up OK.....
http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/releasenotes esp. chapter 4: 4.4.6 upgrading kernel & udev. Failures of X are logged in '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' One thing I noticed is apt-get is recommended now, for more tasks. -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201102061324.03322.gomadtr...@gci.net
