Upgrade form Dapper to Edgy Eft

[John L Fjellstad]

"Richard Ibbotson" <richard.ibbotson at gmail.com> writes:

> I've upgraded my workstation from Dapper to Edgy Eft.  Part way
> through the upgrade using 'gksu "update-manager -c" ' the upgrade
> halted and asked me to use Synaptic to repair the damage.  This
> doesn't work either.  Output of some error messages is.....  "there
> are 70 broken packages on your system!"  Use the broken filter to
> locate them.  Done that... and it says..  "E:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.1ubuntu6_i386.deb: trying
> to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin', which is also in package iglooftp"
> /usr/X11R6/bin is where IglooFTP normally goes.  There seems to be
> something about a link between /usr/X11R6/bin and something else. 
> Tried to remove the IglooFTP applicaion and directory but the upgrade
> refuses to complete.  Anyone have any ideas how to get round this ? 
> Would be nice to have a working apt-get or gksu or Synaptic system and
> a workstation that will accept updates.

Could you move everything in /usr/X11R6/bin to /usr/bin manually, and
then make /usr/X11R6/bin a symlink to /usr/bin?  Then try to do
the upgrade/removal.

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John L. Fjellstad
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