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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Debian help

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
>>
>>
>>
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