On Fri, October 24, 2008 10:37 am, Mark Little wrote: > Did you do an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' after changing the sources? Not > sure if this is still required but I remember having to do it when > changing releases around the Potato days. I tried but it only wanted to upgrade the kernel. That failed because it coudn't find any initrd tool or something. > > > Cheers, > Mark > > > On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:21:11 -0400, Bart Trojanowski > <bart-oclug [ at ] jukie [ dot ] net> > wrote: > >> * James <bjlockie [ at ] lockie [ dot ] ca> [081024 10:14]: >> >>> On Fri, October 24, 2008 10:07 am, Bart Trojanowski wrote: >>> >>>> Let's start with this: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> what does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like? >>> >>> I replaced: >>> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sarge main deb >>> http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main >>> >>> >>> with: >>> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb >>> http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free >>> >> >> Hmm, sarge -> etch upgrades used to work really well. >> >> >>>>> apt-get is broken and I installed >>>>> >>>>> gnupg_1.4.6-2_i386.deb with dpkg. >>>>> >>>>> Could not execute '/usr/bin/gpgv' to verify signature (is gnupg >>>>> installed?) >> >> Does apt work upto the point of key verification? >> >> >> If yes, you could remove the trust check by copying /bin/true to >> /usr/bin/gpgv.... clearly you're removing any mirror/package validation >> if you do so. >> >> If no, what does apt-get install -f print? >> >> >> -Bart >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > > >