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Re: Updating from 4.0_r5 to 4.0_r6 ?



On 2008-12-27 14:20 +0100, John Smith wrote:

> I was just trying to upgrade my Debian 4.0_r5 installation to the
> latest 4.0_r6, and after reading the apt-get manual page I assumed
> that the following commands would do the trick :
>
>
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get -u dist-upgrade
>
> However, this gives me the following output :
>
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
>
> Am I using the wrong commands to upgrade my debaibn system, or am I
> missing something obvious here ? I manually checked the debian mirror
> that apt-get uses, and all the files for the latest release 4.0_r6
> seem to be available.

Either you had already upgraded before, or your mirror is not as up to
date as it seems.  What does "apt-cache show dpkg" print?

Sven


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