Re: Upgrading to a new release
Beautiful! I got some errors doing apt-get
dist-upgrade but running dselect (twice) it looks like
everything is working. I have newfound respect for
dselect and love Debian even more! Thanks guys/girls,
you've been so helpful!
Now it's time to get X working...
--- Antonio Rodr <arodriguez31@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:14:48 -0400
> Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:02:12AM -0700, Paul
> Burkett wrote:
> > > Basically, I have Debian Woody (3.0) CDs and
> since I
> > > didn't want to burn a new CD for unstable, I
> went
> > > ahead and installed it. Now what I want to know
> is,
> > > how do I upgrade to unstable? Is it a matter of
> adding
> > > APT::Default-Release "testing"; to
> /etc/apt.conf, and
> > > adding unstable to the sources.list? Or will I
> have to
> > > add a pin priority? One of the Debian Manuals
> > > recommends
> > > using dselect instead of APT to upgrade to new
> > > releases, is this a better way of doing it? Or
> should
> > > I just do an apt-get dist-upgrade? Any help
> would be
> > > much
> > > appreciated. Thanks!
> >
> >
> > Basically just edit /etc/apt/sources.list and
> replace all occurences
> > of the word stable with unstable.
> >
> > Then do apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade.
> >
> > That's what I usually do. I feel that this is the
> best/easiest way to
> > get unstable onto my computer.
> >
> > Bijan
>
> I would also add: Try not to install too many
> packages from stable,
> since many could lead you to broken dependencies,
> due to absences or so
> in the unstable branch. Just have a basic one
> running, and then, if you
> feel lazy, once you have converted to sid, run
> tasksel. Another thing is
> that some times aptitude will show broken
> dependencies, go then with
> dselect, and with apt-get with all its different
> options. I have noticed
> that by cycling through them, you can fix most (if
> not all) the
> dependenciy problems. Good luck.
=====
- Paul Burkett
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