Hello debian users, I am having trouble dist-upgrading from squeeze-lts to wheezy.
I have been following these instructions to upgrade from pre-lts squeeze (didn't find any specific ones for lts): https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.html The problem happens when it gets to apt: dpkg: error processing apt (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 configured to not write apport reports Errors were encountered while processing: apt Can't locate File/Find.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 .) at /usr/bin/debsums line 10. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/debsums line 10. E: Problem executing scripts DPkg::Post-Invoke 'if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi' Indeed, I cannot locate the File/Find.pm module on my system (with locate & grep). Trying to install it via cpan fails with "Can't locate autouse.pm in @INC..." `apt-get -f install` fails with the same message as above. I noticed the list of unmet dependencies included a bunch of vlc packages that I do not care about, so I tried getting rid of those, and it pares down the list of problem packages by about half: # apt-get purge vlc vlc-nox vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse libvlc5 ... You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: consolekit : Depends: libck-connector0 (= 0.4.5-3.1) but 0.4.1-4 is to be installed irssi : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libapache2-mod-perl2 : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libapt-pkg-perl : Depends: libapt-pkg4.10 but it is not installable libbsd-resource-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libcurses-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libdatetime-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libdbd-mysql-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libdbd-pg-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libdbd-sqlite3-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libdbi-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libdevmapper1.02.1 : Depends: dmsetup (>= 2:1.02.74-8) but 2:1.02.48-5 is to be installed libfcgi-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libgd-text-perl : Depends: libgd-gd2-perl but it is not going to be installed libhtml-parser-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libio-pty-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 liblist-moreutils-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libmouse-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libnet-dns-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libnet-libidn-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libnet-ssleay-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libnetaddr-ip-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libparams-classify-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libparams-util-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libparams-validate-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libperl5.14 : Depends: perl-base (= 5.14.2-21+deb7u2) but 5.10.1-17squeeze6 is to be installed libsocket6-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libterm-readline-gnu-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libuuid-perl : Depends: perl-base (>= 5.14.2-13) but 5.10.1-17squeeze6 is to be installed Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 libwmf0.2-7 : Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0) but it is not going to be installed libyaml-syck-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 perl : Depends: perl-base (= 5.14.2-21+deb7u2) but 5.10.1-17squeeze6 is to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). I am not sure if "(or specify a solution)" is referring to some method other that purging/removing packages the way I tried above. I do notice that there are still what look like squeeze security backports that want to be installed My sources.list.d is empty & my entire sources.list is: 1 # non-free is required for tg3 nic firmware 2 # W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso5.bin for module tg3 3 # W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso.bin for module tg3 4 # W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3.bin for module tg3 5 deb http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/debian wheezy main contrib non-free 6 deb-src http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/debian wheezy main contrib non-free 7 # *-updates replaces "volatile" @ squeeze (virus defs, tz data, etc) 8 # http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#stable-updates 9 deb http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/debian wheezy-updates main contrib 10 deb-src http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/debian wheezy-updates main contrib 11 deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free What would be the recommended way of proceeding with this upgrade? Thanks for reading, Kenneth (Sorry for sending to list from gmail, it is my mail server I am upgrading)
