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rhuI have a server that's running Debian sarge. I wanted to install subversion, and I discovered that I needed to edit my sources.conf file for aptitude, since it still referenced "stable" rather than "sarge." So Tuesday I did that. Although I was surprised at the number of files that aptitude was touching, I didn't realize until just now that it had decided that most of my installed packages were was no longer what I wanted installed. (I assume that was since it still thought of them as "stable" and now I said I want "sarge".)
This morning we had a power failure whose duration (1h) exceeded my UPS's charge (30min), so the computer rebooted.
Now I don't have enough of X to start vncserver. It complains that I lack an .Xsession file, any window managers at all, etc.
It turns out I don't even have aptitude anymore.
Apache, Exim, and sshserver are all working fine. So this isn't a crisis, but I'd like to get it solved by the end of the weekend.
I tried reinstalling aptitude from http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/aptitude but of course it has dependencies; now, if I had a working aptitude, I could get aptitude working again. Gack.
What's the fastest way for me to get back to a working aptitude? From there I think I could restore the system.
Or am I better off taking this opportunity to upgrade to etch?
This morning we had a power failure whose duration (1h) exceeded my UPS's charge (30min), so the computer rebooted.
Now I don't have enough of X to start vncserver. It complains that I lack an .Xsession file, any window managers at all, etc.
It turns out I don't even have aptitude anymore.
Apache, Exim, and sshserver are all working fine. So this isn't a crisis, but I'd like to get it solved by the end of the weekend.
I tried reinstalling aptitude from http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/aptitude but of course it has dependencies; now, if I had a working aptitude, I could get aptitude working again. Gack.
What's the fastest way for me to get back to a working aptitude? From there I think I could restore the system.
Or am I better off taking this opportunity to upgrade to etch?