[lug] Sarge -> Etch upgrade errors

[Gary Hodges]

Hugh Brown wrote:
> I found the release notes document useful as I did two upgrades from sarge to etch.
> 
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/index.en.html
> 
> You probably want to look at point 4.5.4.2 "Upgrading a system with some X packages installed"
> 
> Hugh

The release notes help!  Read the instructions first, right?  It was 
ugly at times, but I managed to get one machine upgraded.  Going to 
practice on another this afternoon.

Gary


> 
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 08:24:40AM -0700, Gary.Hodges at noaa.gov wrote:
>> I've tried to upgrade from sarge to etch on two machines and have gotten
>> identical errors.  I've tried both etch DVDs and on-line sources in the
>> sources.list file.  Ultimately I need this to work from DVDs, but at
>> this point either will move me forward.  I'm trying to update from a
>> fully updated sarge install.  I've googled the error messages and found
>> some hits, but no resolution.  It doesn't seem many people have
>> encountered these errors.  The errors:
>>
>> -------------------------
>> Some packages had unmet dependencies.  This may mean that you have
>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>> or been moved out of Incoming.
>>
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>   xlibmesa-glu: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installable
>>                 Conflicts: libglu1 which is a virtual package.
>>   libglu1-mesa: Conflicts: libglu1 which is a virtual package.
>>   libfam0c102: Conflicts: libfam0 but 2.7.0-12 is to be installed.
>> -------------------------
>>
>> >From my sources.list file:
>> =========================
>> deb http://debian.oregonstate.edu/debian/ etch main
>> deb-src http://debian.oregonstate.edu/debian/ etch main
>> deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
>>
>> #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r3 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1
>> 20080217
>> -11:31]/ unstable contrib main
>> #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r3 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-2
>> 20080217
>> -11:31]/ unstable main
>> #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r3 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-3
>> 20080217
>> -11:31]/ unstable main
>> =========================
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