On 5/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bret Busby</b> <<a href="mailto:bret@busby.net">bret@busby.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:<br><br>> Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 10:52:52 +0800<br>> From: Tomasz Grzegurzko <<a href="mailto:tomasz89@gmail.com">tomasz89@gmail.com</a>><br>> Reply-To: <a href="mailto:plug@plug.org.au">
plug@plug.org.au</a><br>> To: <a href="mailto:plug@plug.org.au">plug@plug.org.au</a><br>> Subject: Re: [plug] Debian broken<br>><br>> On 5/1/07, Bret Busby <<a href="mailto:bret@busby.net">bret@busby.net</a>
> wrote:<br>>><br>>><br>>> Hello, everyone.<br>>><br>>> I have been running Debian sarge (more or less).<br>>><br>>> With a recent upgrade, I have now found that the USB on the computer no
<br>>> longer works (printer and camera no longer "found"), and I do not know<br>>> what else has gone wrong with the system.<br>>><br>>> I recently tried to do a system update, using Synaptic, before the
<br>>> release of Debian 4, and found that 23 packages were to be replaced,<br>>> and, with the imposition of shaping, would have taken probably a couple<br>>> of days, so I left it.<br>>><br>>> Then, Debian 4 was released.
<br>>><br>>> Due to things going wrong with the software, I tried to do a system<br>>> update with Synaptic, just now, and, in checking the packes to be<br>>> deleted, etc (the 23 packages to be updated, apparently, no longer
<br>>> applies), it appears that Synaptic intends to massacre my system (gnome<br>>> to be deleted, but not replaced, etc).<br>>><br>>> Is it possible to update sarge, and, if so, how, or, has it been written
<br>>> off by Debian?<br>>><br>>> --<br>>> Bret Busby<br>>> Armadale<br>>> West Australia<br>>> ..............<br>>><br>>> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
<br>>> you'll know what the answer means."<br>>> - Deep Thought,<br>>> Chapter 28 of Book 1 of<br>>> "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:<br>>> A Trilogy In Four Parts",
<br>>> written by Douglas Adams,<br>>> published by Pan Books, 1992<br>>><br>>> ....................................................<br>>> _______________________________________________
<br>>> PLUG discussion list: <a href="mailto:plug@plug.org.au">plug@plug.org.au</a><br>>> <a href="http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug">http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug</a><br>>> Committee e-mail:
<a href="mailto:committee@plug.linux.org.au">committee@plug.linux.org.au</a><br>>><br>><br>><br>><br>> It sounds like your in between sarge and etch. Check your<br>> /etc/apt/sources.list, it should reference "sarge" by name rather then
<br>> "stable" as etch has been promoted the the "stable" area.<br>><br>> Sarge will be maintained for a little while longer, but with the<br>> outdated-ness of Sarge, and the mix mash state your system is probably in,
<br>> it may be wiser just to go for the dist-upgrade to etch.<br>><br>> Tomasz<br>><br><br>The sources file follows.<br><br>" cat /etc/apt/sources.list<br>deb <a href="http://ftp.uwa.edu.au/mirrors/linux/debian/">
http://ftp.uwa.edu.au/mirrors/linux/debian/</a> stable main contrib<br>non-free<br>deb <a href="http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/">http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/</a> stable main contrib non-free<br><br>deb <a href="http://security.debian.org/">
http://security.debian.org/</a> stable/updates main contrib non-free<br>"<br><br>>From the response above, from Tomasz, to upgrade to etch, do I just need<br>to use the two commands<br>apt-get update<br>apt-get dist upgrade
<br>and use the above sources file?<br><br>Or, is there something else I neeed to do?<br><br></blockquote></div><br>Okay make your /etc/apt/sources.list look like this:<br>deb <a href="http://mirror./" target="_blank">http://mirror.
<span style="font-weight: bold;">wa</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>.3fl.net/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free<br>deb <a href="http://mirror./" target="_blank">http://mirror.<span style="font-weight: bold;">
wa</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>.3fl.net/debian/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free<br><br>(or replace sarge with etch if you want to upgrade to etch)<br><br><br>The 3FL mirror is a bit funny at times, you may need to
<br># unset LANG<br>Then run:<br># aptitude update<br># aptitude dist-upgrade<br><br>If you don't have aptitude, use<br># apt-get update<br># apt-get dist-upgrade<br><br>Although aptitude is preferred as it handles dependencies and dist-upgrades much better.
<br><br>See how you go.<br><br>Tomasz<br>