Also for more information I should have mentioned
that 'apt-get -f install' fails because the package
for libxrender1 errors off after unpacking. I
don't recall the error message, but didn't see 
any useful information in it. It basically said
the process returned an error status of 1 or 2 in
the pre-install section. Depending on whether I
used apt-get or dpkg. I have tried forcing it
to install. I even tried to remove libxrender1.1,
but it had so many depends I was afraid to force
it to uninstall. I have even removed the cache and
tried downloading the libxrender from other mirrors.
I also tried using dselect, which shows a lot more
broken packages than dpkg does. Very odd. The system
seems to be running fine, but I'm currently running 
half woody and half sarge. I could try removing X
entirely and reinstalling it, but don't know how to
do that and really don't want to.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Densmore 
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 8:46 AM
> To: KCLUG (E-mail)
> Subject: Debian #!@?&* dist-upgrade problems
> 
> 
> Ok, I tried to upgrade my debian from stable to testing.
> Everything was going fine until it tried to upgrade
> libxrender1 which somehow had an unofficial version 1.1
> installed and it wanted to install version 1.0.8. I am 
> assuming this is part of the problem, as it says that
> libxrender1 isn't installed, but apt-cache says that
> 1.1 is installed but 1.0.8 isn't. Now my system won't
> finish the dist-upgrade because I can't get ast this stupid
> issue. Anyone have any suggestions, because I'm about to 
> trash debian and go back to Mandrake on the laptop?
> 
>  Brian
> 
> "Three OS's from corporate-kings in their towers of glass, 
> Seven from valley-lords where orchards used to grow, 
> Nine from dotcoms doomed to die, 
> one from the dark lord Gates on his dark throne 
> In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie. 
> one OS to rule them all, one OS to find them, 
> one OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, 
> In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie."    john thrum
> 
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