Re: dist-upgrade sarge to etch
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On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 12:57:44AM +0200 sigi said:
> Hi,
>
> some days ago I had to reinstall my system, and I chose debian sarge to
> install on it. Now, I liked to have more recent packages on my machine,
> like I had before.
>
> I tried a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' but this wants me to uninstall nearly
> my whole gnome and kde stuff... totally over 300 packages.
>
> Is this normal, and I should reinstall this packages, after the upgrade,
> or is there sonething wrong with this?
>
> In my sources.list I only have the 'official' mirrors listed, up to now:
>
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
>
> Is there something wrong here, or should I risk this upgrade?
I did this once about a month back and broke my entire system.
I was merely looking for a kernel upgrade to get my nForce-based sound
card working. Things may have changed since then.
I didn't mind losing the gnome and kde stuff but I also lost my X setup.
Sam
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