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[ILUG] Debian 3.0 upgrade problems

[ILUG] Debian 3.0 upgrade problems

Glen Gray glen at lincor.com
Mon Jul 9 17:39:13 IST 2007


Thanks Brian,

Don't know why I didn't think to look there in the first place, that  
seems to have everything I need.

On 9 Jul 2007, at 17:03, Brian Scanlan wrote:

>>  From what I've read, updating from 3.0 to 3.1 should be as simple as
>> point my apt source to sarge and running
>> apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> I've recently upgraded a few servers from 3.1 to 4.0, and they all
> survived 3.0 to 3.1 upgrades before that. The sarge upgrade docs [1]
> recommend use of aptitude rather than apt-get, it is better at
> dependency checks, installation ordering and package conflict
> resolution. It may be too late now though, but see if using aptitude
> for updates and upgrades fixes what you're seeing now.
>
> [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes/ch- 
> upgrading.en.html
>
> Brian.
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