aptitude error in upgrade

Thunderlord_DnB · 03-15-2010, 02:27 PM

I have installed old version of debian sarge 3.1 and I wanted to do update not to reinstall cause I have a lot of customized things that I didn't want to do again

So anyway I got a problem with aptitude I edited source.list
add a close mirror (Installation of the sarge was from CD's so and was totally networkless)
So when I run apt-get update and aptitude update
aptitude dist-upgrade I got a problem with error that look like this

E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.ch.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages (1)

I'm almost certain that it is a small error
I tried with other mirrors too but get the same error
I'm a bit new in that upgrading story so I would just like to get some sort of the answer ...
To no reinstall
Btw if some of the files or some of the stdout or stderr outputs are needed ask me or state of any file ...
I just need to get this done quickly cause it is really old

pljvaldez · 03-15-2010, 03:18 PM

Can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list file?

Generally, when you do upgrades, you should do them piecemeal. Do Sarge to Etch, then Etch to Lenny (current stable), then Lenny to Squeeze (current testing - if you so desire).

Thunderlord_DnB · 03-15-2010, 03:36 PM

Ok I'll try to do upgrade in steps
If it fails I'll post you sources.list

jamescondron · 03-15-2010, 05:21 PM

Does the file look malformed? Here is some output from one of my package lists:

Code:

Package: 2vcard
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 108
Maintainer: Martin Albisetti <argentina@gmail.com>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.5-2
Filename: pool/main/2/2vcard/2vcard_0.5-2_all.deb
Size: 14286
MD5sum: 07bce47e217017749622e02f75cff0d7
SHA1: 80b9ff12999d69be075de6e51b69c069a9a106a7
SHA256: 409b7e5e1efff1e8196ce5151a4cfa63dd2bd6a6f611e2a6c611a0a73d3e83f9
Description: perl script to convert an addressbook to VCARD file format
 2vcard is a little perl script that you can use to convert the
 popular vcard file format. Currently 2vcard can only convert addressbooks
 and alias files from the following formats: abook,eudora,juno,ldif,mutt,
 mh and pine.
 .
 The VCARD format is used by gnomecard, for example, which is turn is used by
 the balsa email client.
Tag: implemented-in::perl, role::program, use::converting

Notice the conventions; is yours different?

Thunderlord_DnB · 03-17-2010, 06:49 AM

Works ok now
I have succed to upgrade fast ...

jamescondron · 03-17-2010, 06:50 AM

Well, what did you do? If you post how you solved the problem, people can view it for similar problems