[Sussex] "pre-depend" error upgrading to Woody
Thomas Adam
thomas_adam16 at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 27 22:55:40 UTC 2004
--- Steve Dobson <steve at dobson.org> wrote:
> It may also be worth first upgraging just the apt & dpkg packages:
> # apt-get install apt dpkg
> first just incase it is something that was fixed there.
This is exactly right -- this is what the error is meaning. Upgrading
those two packages before hand will help, hence:
apt-get install apt dpkg && apt-get -u update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade
-- Thomas Adam
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