[vox-tech] debian confusion

[Ken Bloom]

On 06/28/2007 01:04:07 PM, Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had a rather well functioning install of debian testing on a 
> laptop.
> After 
> doing a recent aptitude upgrade I am faced with a rather bizzare
> situation:
> 
> debianutils_2.19.i386 cannot be installed because it replaces things
> provided 
> by the package 'passwd' . This seems to be a bug- but there is little
> online 
> as to how to fix it. 
> 
> my apt sources point to 'testing' and my debian_version file 
> says 'lenny/sid' ???
> 
> any tips on fixing this old beast?
> 
> cheers,

The two bug reports relating to this issue 
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=428633 and 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=428008) suggest to me 
that you either don't keep your distribution updated very well, or 
you're upgrading from pre-etch to lenny without hitting etch in 
between.

--Ken

-- 
Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/

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