[Sussex] "pre-depend" error upgrading to Woody

[Gavin Stevens]

Thanks for this - I also got a very similar reply at Debian Help. The 
respondent there also mentioned upgrading debconf too.

Many thanks to you both once again.

Gavin.

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:55:25 +0000 (GMT), Thomas Adam 
<thomas_adam16 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- 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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