Re: potato -> woody upgrade not smooth...
Actually I've written a short APT/dpkg command reference (in english),
which I've been meaning to put on the WWW but forgot. I wrote it for a
few new-to-Debian friends. I'll put it at
http://people.debian.org/~mrd/deb-ref/ when I get a chance.
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 03:12:18PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> Em Thu, 5 Jul 2001 10:09:14 -0400
> Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> escreveu:
>
> > I wanted to change things. (There's no mention of dpkg-reconfigure in
> > any of the obvious manual pages. As far as I know, you simply have to
> > be lucky and find it while investigating something completely
> > unrelated, or be a mind reader.)
> Well, I noticed that sometime ago and I've written a manual to apt that
> has explanations about "how do I"-like things... "how do I search for
> a package I want to install", use apt-cache search, etc...
>
> the only problem is it is in portuguese yet (I'm in the process of
> translating it to english, if someone wants to take a look at it
> and review it searching for errors and stuff it would be good)
>
> but back to the apt x dselect problem, if we promisse you can easily
> upgrade your system with "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade"
> (and we do it!) apt should honor this... why is apt not supporting
> recommends and suggests yet?
>
> []s!
>
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