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

[Courtney Thomas]

James,

I sent you an email which may not have succeeded so I'll just send you here
the only source I used:

    deb http://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/debian sarge main contrib

Thanks again,

Courtney


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] Fw: HOW2 resolve aptitude conflict ? <---- ATTN:
JamesSumners


> 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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>
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