Re: X won't start
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:53:02AM -0600, Marc Stergionis wrote:
> Sometime around 7:11 PM +0200 on 6/13/02, Håvard Skinnemoen wrote thus:
[...]
> >You'll need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point apt-get to woody
> >instead of potato. To put it simply, you just have to substitute all
> >occurrences of "potato" with "woody". Then, you should do apt-get update
> >and apt-get dist-upgrade and have a cup of coffee while the packages are
> >being downloaded :)
>
> At this point, /etc/apt/sources.list has uncommented only my "Potato
> Official powerpc Binary" CDs, 1, 2 & 3.
>
> None of the entries above that say potato, just
>
> debian stable main contrib non-free
> debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
> stable/updates main contrib non-free
Ah..."stable" is currently an alias of "potato", so that's the word you
should replace with "woody". Rumours say that it's not long time until
"stable" will be pointing to "woody".
> BTW, the CDs I installed from are 2.2r0 20000814
>
> I assume the first and third of those now-commented entries are what
> I want to uncomment, and maybe then *comment* the CD entries?
That's right. The second one, too, if you want crypto software.
Håvard
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