Based on the "normal" linux numbering system for upgrades, you would suspect that 8.0 to 8.1 is just a minor upgrade. I have not found this to be true. I think it is a major upgrade. I had many problems, so I went out and bought a cheap HD, installed it as the master and did a fresh install of 8.1. Then I started over on the old HD and did an upgrade. Result total disaster on the old drive.. The result is that I have slowly worked my old java apps and some other favorites to the new drive and boot 8.1 from there. I haven't even accessed the old drive in over a month. Maybe others have comments, but I found the update from CD just terrible. I have not had enough nerve to "Upgrade" 8.1 with apt-get, but I have upgraded, 1 at a time, many packages that I know I use. 1 or 2, I have had to "remove" and go back to the version off the CD's. Hope this helps. On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 22:55, Bob S. wrote:
Hello Suse apt-get experts,
Richard, are you there?
Tried several times, unsuccessfully to upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1. First I downloaded all of the base files (only the base files) from the 8.1 apt repository, 10 or 15 per night until I had them all. (56k modem)
Have been watching the list carefully to see what others have been encountering and modified the preferences file for libvorbis and libpng.
Then I did the apt-get upgrade command. Got a list of messages about glibc-2.2-5 conflicts. So then I tried to "hold" the glibc file with the following command:
# apt-get -o RPM::Hold::="glibc-2-2.5_161" upgrade
I got the same error messages again plus a few more. Here is the result:
Executing RPM (-Uvh)... file /usr/bin/catchsegv from install of glibc-devel-2.2.5-161 conflicts with file from package glibc-2.2.5-158 file /usr/bin/pcprofiledump from install of glibc-devel-2.2.5-161 conflicts with file from package glibc-2.2.5-158 file /usr/bin/rpcgen from install of glibc-devel-2.2.5-161 conflicts with file from package glibc-2.2.5-158 file /usr/bin/sprof from install of glibc-devel-2.2.5-161 conflicts with file from package glibc-2.2.5-158 file /usr/bin/xtrace from install of glibc-devel-2.2.5-161 conflicts with file from package glibc-2.2.5-158 file /usr/share/man/man1/rpcgen.1.gz from install of glibc-devel-2.2.5-161 conflicts with file from package glibc-2.2.5-158 file /usr/share/man/man1/sprof.1.gz from install of glibc-devel-2.2.5-161 conflicts with file from package glibc-2.2.5-158 file /etc/aliases from install of netcfg-2002.9.4-12 conflicts with file from package sendmail-8.12.3-34 file /etc/ppp/ip-up from install of sysconfig-0.23.22-15 conflicts with file from package aaa_base-2002.8.24-0 file /etc/ppp/poll.tcpip from install of sysconfig-0.23.22-15 conflicts with file from package aaa_base-2002.8.24-0 file /usr/lib/libg++-3-libc6.2-2-2.8.1.3.so from install of compat-2002.8.15-28 conflicts with file from package gppshare-2.95.3-219
????? So now what? The "hold" command doesn't seem to work and I don't know what to do next.
Also, must I go get the kernel from the repository and install it at the same time? or install it before? or what?
Thanks in advance to anyone that can point me in the right direction.
Bob S. --
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