On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:
Got it, but rpm claimed it was already installed so I used the --force to freshen it.
Force is always bad. You could have done the following to make sure you had the correct one.
rpm -q apt rpm -qV apt
And one needs 'apt-get update' before 'apt-get upgrade'. Perhaps 'apt-get -f dist-upgrade' does a better job - not sure..
BTW: What do you have for 'cat /etc/redhat-release' ?
And what will the -f option do, the manpages are in an odd location I've not added to my $MANPATH settings yet.
--fix-broken. I've noticed it primarily processes obsoletes (as in pine is obsolteted in FC1 - and upgrade should remove pine)
you could do google on 'man apt-get'
[root@coyote dlds-rpms]# apt-get update Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/i386 release [1174B] Fetched 1174B in 0s (1849B/s) Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/i386/os pkglist
you have bad listing in sources.list
[root@coyote etc]# ls -lR apt* apt: total 32 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 690 Mar 4 15:35 apt.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 30 12:56 apt.conf.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 150 Apr 30 12:49 rpmpriorities -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1854 Apr 8 07:22 sources.list -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1812 Apr 25 2003 sources.list~ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 30 12:56 sources.list.d -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 2339 Apr 30 12:33 sources.list.rpmnew -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 146 Sep 27 2002 vendors.list
Since sources.list was modified - it wasn't updated when you reinstalled apt. You could do: mv sources.list.rpmnew sources.list (alternatively reinstall apt completely) rpm -e apt ls -R /etc/apt rm -rf /etc/apt rpm -ivh apt...rpm
I'm guesing you did 'yum update' instead of 'yum upgrade' to upgrade to FC1 from RHL9 - hence some of these issues..
Satish
