Re: [Debian] can't upgrade from slink to potato
> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:17:46AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm trying to upgrade my slink system to potato (I need a newer
> > > ppp version). I first used dselect to have a look at the new
> > > package in potato but when I run "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade"
> > > apt tells me there are no packages to upgrade. Apparently apt thinks
> > > my system is already up-to-date. Any idea how I can convince apt
> > > to do the upgrade anyway?
>
> <WARNING TYPE="important">
> Are you sure you want to go to potato? Things are rather unstable at the
> moment, more so than usual. If you can't deal with random breakage, you
> may want to stay with slink.
> </WARNING>
I've been running potato on my laptop without problems for some time now.
I installed it mainly for the gnome stuff which wasn't (isn't?) available for
slink at that time. I haven't had much problems with it (except for some
installation problems where packages didn't like eachother :-).
>
> > then you can run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. If you don't
> > want to go all the way with potato, I belive you can just do am
> > apt-get install ppp-whatever and it'll upgrade the necessary
> > packages for you. Check out the man page and /usr/doc/apt for more
> > info.
>
> You may not have much luck installing potato debs on a slink system, since
> potato uses glibc 2.1 while slink has 2.0, and nearly everything depends
> on glibc (aka libc6). You could always download the sources from potato
> and try compiling them on your slink system...
That's exactly why I wanted to upgrade the whole system in stead of just
the ppp package. I considered downloading the source and compiling it myself
but that would make it difficult to upgrade later on. That's the one thing about
packages that I don't like: it's so hard to mix packages with your own self-compiled
applications :-(
Anyway, as the previous guy suggested: I did indeed stupidly forget to update
/etc/apt/sources.list :-)
Nico
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