Re: problems updating from sarge

Last Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:40, Chris Pickett was like:
> Hi,
>
> I finally ditched gentoo yesterday, and installed debian in the time it
> would have taken to fix the problems and compile the right packages for
> my system.  Hmmmm, nothing new here I suppose.
>
> Anyway, then I remembered about demudi.  It looks like the website is
> down, but I can still access the repository and mirrors.  I found:
>
> http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/www.agnula.org/1.2/1.2.0/README.FAQ
>
> which tells me in section 8 that I can upgrade my sarge distribution to
> include demudi, but when I follow the directions, I get errors.
>
> # cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> deb http://mirror.direct.ca/linux/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://mirror.direct.ca/linux/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
> deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main
> deb http://apt.agnula.org/demudi testing main local extra
>
> # apt-get install demudi-install demudi-base
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package demudi-install is not available, but is referred to by another
> package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
> E: Package demudi-install has no installation candidate
>
> (and I get a similar error when I try just demudi-base).  Is this a
> problem? I am able to do `apt-get install demudi' and also grab a
> kernel.  As a little nitpick, the next step could be clearer too, and say:
>
> # apt-get install alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-multimedia-<Type>
>
> instead of
>
> # apt-get install alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-multimedia-
>
> (although it should be obvious, I still messed up).
>
> Finally, I don't have the cfagent-demudi or upgrade-demudi scripts on my
> system.  I do have demudi-cfagent and demudi-upgrade.  demudi-cfagent
> seems to run fine, but when I try to run demudi-upgrade, it says:
>
> /usr/sbin/demudi-upgrade: line 16: debconf-get-selections: command not
> found
>
> and debconf-get-selections doesn't seem to be a package I can install (I
> do have debconf-set-selections on my system).
>
> Sooooooooooo ... what should I do?  I would be okay with blowing
> everything away and restarting from the 1.2.0 CD, if that's going to fix
> things.  

That would probably take about an hour to do, so if you have nothing valuable 
on the drive, it probably will save an awful lot of hassle.

> As far as I understand, demudi is just some extra specially 
> maintained packages on top of debian testing.  Is it a problem if I use
> a current testing?  I notice
>
> http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2004/07/14/debian/ testing main
> contrib non-free
>
> is meant to be in /etc/apt/sources.list in section 9, whereas I have a
> current mirror specified.

Debian Sarge has moved quite a long way from the snapshot that A/DeMuDi-1.2.0 
uses. You will probably have to downgrade some essential packages to make 
DeMuDi fit now. Downgrading stuff is possible, but a right PITA. Probably 
quicker to start from scratch.

cheers

tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk