I'm finally upgrading my Debian Sarge desktop machine to Etch. Hopefully I'll be done before Lenny is released. I believe I've followed the release notes correctly but am running into a problem when doing aptitude dist-upgrade. My procedure up to this point is as follows:
1. Used aptitude to update sarge packages using the sources.list line below:
#deb
http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian sarge main contrib non-free
2. Changed Sources.list file to point to Stable as follows:
deb
http://debian.slimdevices.com stable main
deb
http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb
http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main
3. # aptitude update
4. # aptitude upgrade
5. # aptitude install initrd-tools
6. # aptitude install libfam0 xlibmesa-glu
7. # aptitude dist-upgrade
The dist-upgrade stops due to a dependency problem with the following message:
mozilla-psm: Depends: iceape-browser but it is not installable.
The version of mozilla-psm is 2:1.7.8. iceape is not installed yet. I looked into installing these two packages individually in aptitude but aptitude indicated a very large number of packages would be deleted so I didn't proceed. I found the suggestion to try apt-get dist-upgrade in one of the threads here and experimented with it using the -- simulation as suggested. iceape didn't show up anywhere so I didn't proceed with actually doing these commands. I'm really stuck and afraid I've made quite a mess of my system.
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Thanks for any help.
