Re: dpkg problems...

2005-02-15 Thread Moritz Armingeon
On 12:48 Mon 14 Feb , vze26m98 wrote: > Added the Debian testing distributions to my sources.list. Got a > zillion things to upgrade, which I started in on. Does that "Added" mean that you didn't remove the stable one? If you did so, get rid of stable and apt-get update && apt-get upgrade...

Addendum: Re: dpkg problems...

2005-02-15 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 08:41:28PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > For *all* commands above, except perhaps "dpkg -C", first do a dry-run > with the "--simulate" option, so apt-get/dpkg might hopefully warn you > in case you're gonna enter something that could be wrong ... :) > ...something li

Re: dpkg problems...

2005-02-15 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Charles On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:48:52PM -0500, vze26m98 wrote: > Sorry to bother, but I'm a fairly new user and have dug myself into a > hole ... Welcome to the Club ... :) > and my searches of the Debian lists haven't turned up what I'm > needing. > > Recently did an install of Woody on

Re: dpkg problems...

2005-02-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/02/05 12:48), vze26m98 wrote: > Sorry to bother, but I'm a fairly new user and have dug myself into a > hole and my searches of the Debian lists haven't turned up what I'm > needing. > > Recently did an install of Woody on a Pismo, things have been fine. > > Added the Debian testing distri

Re: dpkg problems...

2005-02-14 Thread James Tappin
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:48:52 -0500 vze26m98 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: V> So: V> V> What's the easiest way to get out of my trouble? Can I get back to a V> stable distro or throw out a package database and start over? V> V> Any info greatly appreciated, and thanks to all that have made V> Linuc

dpkg problems...

2005-02-14 Thread vze26m98
Sorry to bother, but I'm a fairly new user and have dug myself into a hole and my searches of the Debian lists haven't turned up what I'm needing. Recently did an install of Woody on a Pismo, things have been fine. Added the Debian testing distributions to my sources.list. Got a zillion things t

Re: Serious dpkg problems

2003-05-24 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 03:34:58PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Hi. I realise this isn't a ppc question, but since I've had no response > on debian-user over the last 2 days I thought I would take the liberty > of trying here (where people have always been helpful!). > > A server went down

Serious dpkg problems

2003-05-24 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Hi. I realise this isn't a ppc question, but since I've had no response on debian-user over the last 2 days I thought I would take the liberty of trying here (where people have always been helpful!). A server went down during an apt-get dist-upgrade. It looks like some sort of cache value is missi