[ale] Fw: HOW2 resolve aptitude conflict ? <---- ATTN: James Sumners

[James Sumners]

If your sources.list only references the stable/Sarge branch I don't
see how you would be getting this error. Please post the contents of
/etc/apt/sources.list . I'll make further recommendations from there.

On 10/21/06, Courtney Thomas <courtneycthomas at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> James,
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> As I'm sure you can tell, I'm awkwardly groping toward Debian literacy and
> am now
> quite befuddled at the murky descriptions of 'foolin' with Debian'.  :-)
>
> Anyway, to attempt more clarity on my current circumstance.....
>
> I was runnin' 2.4.17 and want to upgrade to Sarge, which I've belatedly
> learned
> is, apparently, capable of runnin' under 2.4.27 as well as 2.6x. I've been
> told
> that it would be best at this point to stay with 2.4.27 rather than tryin'
> to go 2.6.x.
>
> So, at this point I'm plannin' on installing 2.4.27 by means of:
>
>     aptitude install kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7
>
> which produced the errors to which you referred.
>
> I should also add that I've, probably mistakenly, already
> switched to "sarge" in my sources.list and:
>
>     apt-get update
>     apt-get -u dist-upgrade
>
> but....have not installed an appropriate 'new' kernel
>
> Now, given your fuller understanding, that "stable" is what
> I'm after:
>
> 1 - since I did the dist-upgrade to 'sarge' while runnin' 2.4.17,
>      where am I now, regarding what is currently installed  ?
>
> 2 - what do you recommend to resolve the libc6/newKernel
>      need, given that I've already done a sarge dist-upgrade  ?
>
> I apologize for the length of this msg but hopefully this will
> permit clarity for your effort to bail-me-out  :-)
>
> Most appreciatively,
>
> Courtney

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