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How did you get it to update? #2

Open Xdradt-84 opened 3 months ago

Xdradt-84 commented 3 months ago

I don't know if you're gonna look this, but if you do. How did you get it to update? Because everytime I try to, it says I need to install usrmerge, which when I try to install the program it fails to install because it needs dependencies which can't be installed because they need a merged /usr/.

olin000 commented 3 months ago

Hi @Xdradt-84,

As described on the home page of this repository. You need to updated your sources, i.e. /etc/apt/sources.list. This is what I had initially: deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ sid main I am currently using: deb [arch=ppc64,powerpc] http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ sid main

Then I was upgrading with apt: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade But as also described before, some of the packages I had to download with wget and install them manually with dpkg. Potentially maybe even manually unpacking packages (I love Midnight Commander and it allows you to open them and then you can see to what folders you need to unpack the content). You could also download on some other Linux instance and move the files in some way to PS3.

As for usrmerge, I don't recall it was needed, but indeed I have it installed: dpkg --list|grep usrmerge ii usrmerge 39 all Convert the system to the merged /usr directories scheme

These are its dependencies: Depends: perl:any, libfile-find-rule-perl

For your convenience I attach here the zipped "usrmerge_39_all.deb". usrmerge_39_all.zip

Hope this help.

Xdradt-84 commented 2 months ago

I did what you wrote in the home page and I still can't get it to update even when trying to manually install them, forcing the system also does lead to nothing, plus I also now get the error "Ignoring Provides line with DepCompareOp for package" for a lot of different packages when I do "sudo apt-get update"

olin000 commented 1 month ago

@Xdradt-84, sorry for the late reply.

As mentioned here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/946402/apt-get-update-warning-ignoring-provides-line-with-depcompareop-for-package Potentially your apt is too old, maybe initially try to update only apt.

Alternatively if you have access to a share where I could drop it. I could provide you with a Macrium Reflect image (about 14 GB!) of my PS3-Debian installation. Let me know.