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i am currently running debian (installed from the debian pure package, which is exactly the same as debian but with a supposedly easier install script). today i tried to upgrade ...
  1. 10-29-2005 #1
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    trying to upgrade sarge to sid?

    i am currently running debian (installed from the debian pure package, which is exactly the same as debian but with a supposedly easier install script). today i tried to upgrade my distro to the unstable version (sid) due to the outdatedness of packages in sarge. in order to upgrade, i changed everything in my /etc/apt/sources.list file to that said stable to unstable, and commented out the security updates section, so that my sources.list now looks like this:
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    ###Debian STABLE
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20050607)]/ unstable contrib main main/debian-installer 
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free 
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free 
deb http://archive.progeny.com/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free 
#deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free 

###Debian MISC
##Restricted
#deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free restricted 
# deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main
    after making these changes, i run apt-get update, only to get the following error:
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    E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
E: Error occured while processing wacom-tools (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
    therefore, i cannot upgrade from sarge to sid. what exactly am i doing wrong here?
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  2. 10-29-2005 #2
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    Try running apt-setup and set up some sources there. After that is done, go to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and change the appropriate values there. It worked for me when I used Debian.

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    one problem i see is that you have unstable on the cd (unstable isn't there). You need a main (instead of just contrib). Also there are security updates for testing now. Try using...
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    ###Debian STABLE
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20050607)]/ unstable contrib main main/debian-installer
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main 
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://archive.progeny.com/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main
###Debian MISC
##Restricted
#deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free restricted
# deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main
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