Adam Jacob Muller wrote:
apt-get help update - Retrieve new lists of packages dist-upgrade - Distribution upgrade, see apt-get(8) so after you add the new site in sources.list you would first update to retrieve any new packages then ince those new packagves with the new files were downloaded and indexed (or whatever apt-get does) then you can tell it to dist-upgrade.
This is what I thought I was supposed to do: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get upgrade (eventually) But this may not be the best method. I have to run apt-get dist-upgrade > 8 times before it's done.Others are saying that by running apt-get upgrade first, they only have to dist-upgrade 1-2 times.
I know mine worked, eventually, and I can set it to loop forever if I need to. But I'm just not clear.