[Gllug] Debian

[Chris Bell]

On Wed 19 Dec, Stephen Harker wrote:
> 
> Hey Guys.
> I could get to like this Debian thing you know. After a few abortive 
> attempts in the past, I have succesfully installed Potato (2.2r4) and 
> now I'm updating it using dselect (apt) to Woody. But, is it really 
> necessary to run the install screen so many times. I must be on about 
> the 10th pass by now. It keeps conking out and claiming there are 
> errors in the packages while unpacking, configures what it has done 
> so far and then I have to start over. Is this normal? If I delete the 
> .deb files that are dodge from /var/cache/apt/archive, will it 
> automatically fetch them again?

   I believe it can't always configure packages as they are unpacked because
other packages on which they are depedant are still packed or unconfigured.
It seems to get there in the end.

-- 
Chris Bell


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