Re: Installing testing

[Chris Caldwell <caldwell@gwu.edu>]

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Stefan Kohn sent the following message Today:

SK>  Hi,...
SK>
SK>  i would be glad, if you can send me the source.list, because i have the
SK>  Problem, that i'm looking for a clean testing-source with all packages.
SK>  When i try to upgrade from the sources i use, i received an "Broken
SK>  Package - Error" and this drives me mad.
SK>
SK>  The other way, installing Woody (stable) and dist-upgrade to testing is
SK>  not working.


deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

I've had the best luck with doing a minimal stable install (no
tasksel/dselect), changing the sources.list, and then make sure
you do:

apt-get update
apt-get --fix-broken --fix-missing dist-upgrade


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