[PlanetCCRMA] RH 8.0 Upgrade

Harri Haataja harri.haataja@kolumbus.fi
Sat Jan 25 01:51:02 2003


On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:48:13PM +0000, Carr Wilkerson wrote:
> Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> >>    I just tried to do an apt-get update and got:
> >>
> >>[root@tauzin carrlane]# apt-get update
> >>E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/http could not be found.
> >>
> >>I noticed that I do have /usr/lib/apt/http.
> >
> >I think you have the old apt.conf file, get the one for apt 0.5.4 from
> >the web site, install it in /etc/apt and all should work again...

> I looked at the apt.conf file and it looked ident to the one on the 
> site, but I replaced it anyway and got the same:
> 
> [root@tauzin carrlane]# apt-get update
> E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/http could not be found.

Also, if you upgrade apt (or any package!), you may get new versions
of configfiles in .rpmnew files. Look through these with vimdiff or such
and see what has changed. Sometimes file locations etc move and the old
config doesn't point to the files the new package contains.


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