Debian Upgrade Etch->Lenny
Well, that's that done for my desktop. Mostly went smoothly, just a bit awkward getting it to upgrade the C library initially. That was due to my having installed an i686-optimised version at some point, and apparently not from a repository dpkg was happy about. I ended up having to force the few vital packages back to the Etch versions, install the version of libc6-i686 it knew about, then try again.
After that it was just the usual matter of running "aptitude dist-upgrade" repeatedly, dealing with a few dependency problems (by just plain removing stuff, or removing to force the old version away and then re-installing to get the Lenny version), until it was all done.
There's no xmms in Lenny, which pisses me off, as its 'replacement' xmms2 isn't a simple drop-in replacement. A nifty client/server architecture it might be, but it would have been nice to have 'xmms2' be a GUI that looks like the old one, rather than a CLI tool, and no GUI installed. And then what I did try looked crap, so I'm going to just install the old xmms from source for now.
Also pidgin is bitching that it can't find the SSL library (actually libnss) for connecting to MSN. That was with my old self-compiled binary, but the Lenny pidgin-data installed. The Lenny binary from the pidgin package wasn't any happier. So I'm trying a recompile after removing all the Debian pidgin/gaim packages. Aaaaaaaaand, no, that's still bitching, grrr. Time to look at that more closely. Why do I get a feeling I'll be going back to GNUtls yet again?
Edit: Looks like the initial error had been 'saved' somehow. After much fiddling (and sorting the SILC library for LJ chat to work) I finally hit the 'reconnect' button on the message about needing SSL for MSN... and it simply worked.
Right, now to try Firefox3...
After that it was just the usual matter of running "aptitude dist-upgrade" repeatedly, dealing with a few dependency problems (by just plain removing stuff, or removing to force the old version away and then re-installing to get the Lenny version), until it was all done.
There's no xmms in Lenny, which pisses me off, as its 'replacement' xmms2 isn't a simple drop-in replacement. A nifty client/server architecture it might be, but it would have been nice to have 'xmms2' be a GUI that looks like the old one, rather than a CLI tool, and no GUI installed. And then what I did try looked crap, so I'm going to just install the old xmms from source for now.
Also pidgin is bitching that it can't find the SSL library (actually libnss) for connecting to MSN. That was with my old self-compiled binary, but the Lenny pidgin-data installed. The Lenny binary from the pidgin package wasn't any happier. So I'm trying a recompile after removing all the Debian pidgin/gaim packages. Aaaaaaaaand, no, that's still bitching, grrr. Time to look at that more closely. Why do I get a feeling I'll be going back to GNUtls yet again?
Edit: Looks like the initial error had been 'saved' somehow. After much fiddling (and sorting the SILC library for LJ chat to work) I finally hit the 'reconnect' button on the message about needing SSL for MSN... and it simply worked.
Right, now to try Firefox3...