[clug] Problem upgrading Debian Squeeze to Wheezy

[Scott Ferguson]

On 28/06/13 13:43, Ian Matters wrote:
> Good afternoon Cluggers.
> 
> I just now tried to upgrade an installation of Debian Squeeze to Wheezy and have run into a problem. I've done:
> 

<snipped>

> 
> I then tried:
> 
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> and received the message:
> 
> "910 upgraded, 704 newly installed, 70 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 3,810 B/1,080 MB of archives.
> After this operation, 741 MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
> Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main javascript-common all 7 [3,810 B]
> Fetched 3,810 B in 0s (6,003 B/s)            
> E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'default-jre'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)"
> 
> My question is how do I force the installation of the 911 packages?

also try:-
su -c "apt-get -d dist-upgrade;apt-get -o APT::Immediate-Configure=0
dist-upgrade"


> 
> Ian Matters
> 
> <ian at matters.id.au>
> ---
> 
> 

hoping you backed up /etc first ;)

Kind regards