* Doug MacFarlane (madmac@covad.net) [021116 21:30]: > I thought apt-get dist-upgrade would take you from woody to sarge, or sarge > to sid, and so on?? I'm obviously missing something here . . . . Not exactly. dist-upgrade is mostly like upgrade, except that it handles handles dependencies better when there are new packages and/or packages no longer in the archive. Specifically, upgrade won't automatically install any new packages required by upgraded existing packages on your system, whereas dist-upgrade will. So, as someone else already mentioned, to use testing, you have to manually add it to your sources.list, then run dist-upgrade (or better yet, do the upgrade using dselect or aptitude for a good overview of what will be upgraded, what new packages need to be installed, what packages are no longer used, etc.) good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin
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