Re: Mozilla, netscape and potato to woody
Donald R. Spoon wrote:
Peter Watkinson wrote:
Is there an easy way to upgrade from potato to woody without doing a
full reinstall? Can I just use dselect and point it towards woody?
You first have to modify your /etc/apt/sources.list file to point
towards the right disttro (Potato or Woody). Currently, it is probably
just pointed at either "potato" or "stable". You should modify it to
point to "testing" or "woody". See "man apt", "man apt-get", and "man
sources.list" for more info on how to do this. Once pointed at the
correct dist, you can then "apt-get update" and "apt-get
dist-upgrade". This should get you upgraded to Woody. In my
experience, this takes about as long as a full-reinstall/fresh install
over my RoadRunner connection. Yo will probably have to "upgrade"
about 250+ packages or so from your Potato install. Also, you might
run into a few rough spots during the change from XFree86 3.3.6 to
XFree 4.0.1 and have to do a bit of fooling around with your X install
to get it working. At least several other people have reported this
problem. I have generally done a fresh install recently and have NOT
had any problems myself...
I'd strongly recommend using dselect or another frontend with
interactive dependency management when doing a potato->woody (or other
full version) upgrade. A lot of packages are more fine-grained now,
there are often multiple alternative "Provides:" options (e.g. you don't
want cxml-ev6 on an older machine!), and many of them have important
Suggests: or Recommends: packages which you will never hear about at all
if you simply "apt-get dist-upgrade".
Regards,
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