how do i update my system

Forum: HD Install
Topic: how do i update my system
started by: xlulux

Posted by xlulux on May 02 2005,04:24

i really want to know a way that i can make sure all my programs are up to date once i have my dsl installed on harddisk. I have enough space for the updates but the "apt-get" thing seems broken to me because these are the results i get from trying to dist-upgrade my system

Code Sample

root@box:/home/dsl# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fileutils shellutils textutils
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1852kB of archives.
After unpacking 5566kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 10638 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking fileutils (from .../fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/bin/chgrp', which is also in package coreutils
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@box:/home/dsl#

and im not sure that dsl has a cli tool to make sure all my extensions are all up to date all at once, im kind of regretting not going with slackware here guys....

please help me keep my system up to date before i have to go to california :-).

all help will be appreciated

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on May 02 2005,04:38

DSL is NOT Debian.

apt-get dist-upgrade will destroy your system.

Everything on the CD is considered "up to date" for DSL.

-J.P.

Posted by xlulux on May 02 2005,23:15

Quote (SaidinUnleashed @ May 02 2005,00:38)

DSL is NOT Debian.

apt-get dist-upgrade will destroy your system.

Everything on the CD is considered "up to date" for DSL.

-J.P.

meh i fixed it -_- thanks for your wonderful post

you need a dselect command (i forget which one)
to fix it because when you apt-get the files are found locally just not in the right location.

if anyone else has this problem let me know ill dig up the solution again

Posted by calle on May 23 2005,12:54

Quote (SaidinUnleashed @ May 02 2005,00:38)

DSL is NOT Debian.

apt-get dist-upgrade will destroy your system.

Everything on the CD is considered "up to date" for DSL.

-J.P.

Quote

Everything on the CD is considered "up to date" for DSL.

So how are things like security updates handled when I have installed DSL onto a machine? I'm thinking of installing it on a CF-card into a small micro-itx-like machine and have it working as router, dhcp and socks server. Is there any mechanism like apt-get upgrade to get the latest security fixes?

Thanks

Posted by cbagger01 on May 23 2005,15:58

You can apt-get install the latest versions of your individual packages like linux kernel, etc.

It is not convenient, but it will allow you to avoid breaking of the non-standard x window system used in DSL, for example. Just don't choose the packages that are related to x-windows server.

If you want a true debian system, you can download the Debian installer and install debian from scratch.

Posted by St. Paul on June 14 2005,17:01

Good thing I read this first:

"apt-get dist-update will destroy your system"

I'm having the same problems: I'm getting a similar error message when I try to install software. In my case, it's AbiWord and the offending library is libXrandr2.

Can you fellas elaborate on the solution for your case? And exactly what do you mean by "destroy your system"---make it completely unbootable or just not DSL anymore?