Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@lilalaser.de> writes:
>On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:15:52 -0700, Rodney wrote:
>
>> Did you read the release notes for Etch previous to starting the
>> upgrade? And, did you follow the procedure in those release notes?
>
><blush>Ok, you got me red handed </blush>
>I overestimated the ability of "apt-get dist-upgrade" to deal with this
>kind of problems.

Don't worry, apt-get worked nicely for the sarge->etch upgrade on a
number of machines round here, while aptitude cause a lot of work that
eventually came to nothing: IIRC it wanted to deinstall lprng for
installing gthumb; apt-get installed gthumb without such nonsense, so
I went back to apt-get.

- anton
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