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;">
<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>
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</a><br>Committee e-mail: <a href="mailto:committee@plug.linux.org.au">committee@plug.linux.org.au</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br><br>It sounds like your in between sarge and etch. Check your /etc/apt/sources.list, it should reference "sarge" by name rather then "stable" as etch has been promoted the the "stable" area.
<br><br>Sarge will be maintained for a little while longer, but with the outdated-ness of Sarge, and the mix mash state your system is probably in, it may be wiser just to go for the dist-upgrade to etch.<br><br>Tomasz<br>