[PLUG] debian upgrade confusion

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

So I'm trying to figure out how to upgrade my debian box (potato) to
woody.

So I edit /etc/apt/sources.list: s/stable/woody/g. (I also tried
s/woody/unstable/g, same thing.) Then I do an apt-get update, which
warns me that a few things couldn't be found:

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diderot:/home/jeff# apt-get update
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Packages [1332kB]
Get:2 http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/main Packages [44.2kB]             
Err http://security.debian.org woody/updates/main Packages                     
  404 Not Found
Ign http://security.debian.org woody/updates/main Release                      
Err http://security.debian.org woody/updates/contrib Packages                  
  404 Not Found
Ign http://security.debian.org woody/updates/contrib Release                   
Err http://security.debian.org woody/updates/non-free Packages                 
  404 Not Found
Ign http://security.debian.org woody/updates/non-free Release                  
Get:3 http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/main Release [88B]                 
Get:4 http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/contrib Packages [400B]     
Get:5 http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/contrib Release [91B]  
Get:6 http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/non-free Packages [3614B]          
Get:7 http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/non-free Release [92B]             
Get:8 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Release [81B]
Get:9 http://http.us.debian.org woody/contrib Packages [38.3kB]
Get:10 http://http.us.debian.org woody/contrib Release [84B]
Get:11 http://http.us.debian.org woody/non-free Packages [66.9kB]
Get:12 http://http.us.debian.org woody/non-free Release [85B]
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/woody/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages
  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/woody/updates/contrib/binary-i386/Packages
  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/woody/updates/non-free/binary-i386/Packages
  404 Not Found
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org woody/updates/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_woody_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org woody/updates/contrib Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_woody_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org woody/updates/non-free Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_woody_updates_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
diderot:/home/jeff# 
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OK, but those are all updates, so maybe I don't care so much about
them. So I check on the possibility of doing a dist-upgrade.

The script log starts out like this:

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Script started on Fri Aug 31 21:28:38 2001
diderot:/home/jeff# apt-get -f --dry-run dist-upgrade | less
E: Command line option --dry-run is not understood
diderot:/home/jeff# apt-get -f --dry-run
dist-upgrade | less
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ecpg gnome-print gnumeric libpgsql2 pnmtopng postgresql-pl task-database-pg
  task-tcltk-dev task-x-window-system-core tetex-lib tk8.2-dev tktable-dev
  xbase-clients xf86setup xfonts-cjk xlib6g-dev xpm4g 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  console-common cpp-2.95 debconf-utils defoma dialog g++-2.95 gawk gcc-2.95
  gftp-common gftp-gtk gftp-text gnome-help groff-base hermes1 host html2text
  ifupdown ipchains klogd libbz2-1.0 libcap1 libcapplet0 libdate-manip-perl
  libdb3 libdns4 libdps1 libexpat1 libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libgdk-pixbuf2 libgmp3
  libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data libgnomeprint15 libhtml-tagset-perl
  libisc3 libkpathsea3 libldap2 liblwres1 libmagick5 libnetpbm9
  libparse-yapp-perl libperl5.6 libpgperl libpgsql2.1 libpisock4 librep9
  libsasl7 libscrollkeeper0 libservlet2.2-java libssl0.9.6
  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libttf2 libungif4g libunicode0 libwmf0 libwraster2
  libwww0 libxaw6 libxaw7 libxml-enno-perl libxml-parser-perl libxml-perl
  libxml2 net-tools netkit-inetd netkit-ping perl perl-5.6 perl-doc
  perl-modules perl-suid sawfish sgmltools-lite tcl8.3 tcl8.3-dev tk8.3
  wenglish xlibs xserver-common-v3 xutils 
The following packages have been kept back
  cygnus-stylesheets debian-policy lib-xt-java 
324 packages upgraded, 80 newly installed, 17 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
[...long list of packages cut...]
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Now, what really bothers me is what debian thinks it's going to
remove: things like task-x-window-system-core and gnumeric.

Can anyone help me understand what is going on?


What I want out of this is a current copy of gnumeric: I have 0.47,
but I have some gnumeric files from a RedHat machine that I can't open
because the file format has changed somewhat in the more recent
versions of gnumeric. I'd also like, if I can get it, a more recent
version of gnucash, a much harder request.

But loosing X would be overkill...


Thanks in advance for any help.

-- 
 Jeff

 Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>



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