wheezy packages problems

2016-07-04 Thread Giovanni Gigante
Hello, I have a wheezy installation (itself upgraded from previous versions) that I now want to upgrade to jessie. I was following the instructions for the preparation to the upgrade to jessie, and I got this: # dpkg --audit The following packages are missing the md5sums control file in the da

Re: Re: wheezy packages problems

2016-07-04 Thread Giovanni Gigante
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: Did you run "apt-get update"? Sure. Also... I used to get that message a lot about holding packages back.. People talk about "pinning" packages here. I've never done that but it might be one answer if you've ever actively done that yourself. I *a-sume* you'd have to u

Re: wheezy packages problems

2016-07-04 Thread Giovanni Gigante
Sven Joachim wrote: Apparently java-gcj-compat depends on java-gcj-compat-headless, on which gcj-jre-headless conflicts. Now why apt-get refuses to uninstall java-gcj-compat-headless in favor of gcj-jre-headless is unclear, but apt-get *never* tells _why_ some package "is not going to be insta

reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-05 Thread Giovanni Gigante
Hello, I am preparing my system for the upgrade from wheezy to jessie. Since ancient ages, this system has been using LILO as the bootloader, because, long ago, it was the only bootloader that was recommended for my setup: this machine has two SATA disks in a software RAID 1 & LVM; that is, in

Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?

2016-07-07 Thread Giovanni Gigante
Brian wrote: Giovanni Gigante seems happy enough with LiLo and there appears to be no definite indication that it would fail to boot an upgraded machine. He could consider leaving it in place, reading the bug reports and having a plan to install GRUB should something go wrong afterwards. At

cups wants to remove the kernel

2005-09-05 Thread Giovanni Gigante
I have a Sarge machine: a standard install with default kernel. Now I want to install CUPS to use it as a print server. Following the "Debian and Windows Shared Printing mini-HOWTO", I tried to install CUPS (apt-get install cupsys). The installation begins, and among other things it says: