[PlanetCCRMA] Multiple versions of "up2date"

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 16:24, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 14:39, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > > >    I'm updating my 12 year old's Planet machine today. (back to school
> > > > > time, 'eh?) Anyway, I an apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade and
> > > > > things were going along fine, but about 1/2 way through 180 packages it
> > > > > quit. I rebooted and tried apt-get update again and got the message
> > > > > about multiple versions of up2date.
> > > > > 
> > > > >    How do I recover from this?
> > > > 
> > > > First let's make sure you have multiple versions. Just do a:
> > > >   rpm -q up2date
> > > > If you do, then you can remove _all_ of them by:
> > > >   rpm -e --allmatches up2date
> > > > I don't know why this may have happened. Did you get an error message
> > > > when the original update quit?
> > >  
> > >    Well, there are two copies:
> > > up2date-3.0.7-1
> > > up2date-3.0.7.2-1
> > > 
> > > rpm -e --allmatches up2date failed for dependencies. (firstboot, others,
> > > etc...) 
> > 
> > I see, you can, I guess, ignore dependencies (bad, of course :-). 
> >   rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches up2date
> > and the install it only once:
> >   apt-get install up2date
> > or most probably (because dependencies are hosed)
> >   apt-get -f install
> > 
> OK, this is good. I'm moving forward and up2date is now reinstalled
> (3.0.7.2-1) but when I do an apt-get update at this point I'm getting an
> error message:

Yes, very very old version of sources.list. 
It looks like the machine is 8.0, to make sure:
  cat /etc/redhat-release
Once you find out download the proper sources.list from the Planet CCRMA
pages...

-- Fernando