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Grant Sewell wrote: > I have installed Debian Stable onto the new "desktop" machine. Did you run apt-get update, apt-get upgrade on stable before going into dist-upgrade? > I am in > the process of upgrading it to Testing (I don't think I'll go for > Unstable again just yet... Last time I installed (this amd64 box), Debian asked me during the initial setup whether to use stable, testing or unstable in a debconf dialogue - at the point where I chose my mirror. IF you did not get that dialogue, I suspect a bad choice of mirror as the cause of your problems. IF you'd chosen unstable (or testing) at that point, you wouldn't need dist-upgrade. > I have updated the sources.list file and run "apt-get update". Installation (even of stable) is quite some way behind the mirrors so you should have done apt-get update apt-get upgrade before editing the sources.list. > Running > "apt-get dist-upgrade" has failed on a few packages, and it suggests > using "-f", so I have duly run "apt-get -f dist-upgrade". You may be able to revert this - change the sources.list back (newer packages won't be affected) and upgrade to the stable mirrors. I suspect one of two issues: XFree -> XOrg transition GCC3 -> GCC4 / 4.1 transition. > This fails on > some package or other It's always worth keeping a note of the troublesome packages.... it really helps others trying to help you. > I was just wondering if this is going to cause problems at all? I can't answer that without knowing the packages . . . -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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