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Re: How to upgrade ?



On Tue, 19 May 1998, George Bonser wrote:

> On Tue, 19 May 1998, Tony Schonfeld wrote:
> 
> > Sorry for this basic question, 
> > but to upgrade a package it's simple necessary to use Dselect ,
> > but when i want upgrade a distribution by example debian 1.3 to 2.0  
> > the Base packages are automaticaly upgrade without reboot  with 
> > deselect or what is a method ??? 
> > 
> 
> If you are comfortable manually ftping packages and installing them
> manually with dpkg -i then you can probably get away with this:
> 
> get the following packages and install them in the order given:
> 
> libc5
> ldso
> libc6
> ncurses3.0
> ncurses3.4
> libreadline
> libreadlineg
> bash
> libg++
> dpkg
> dpkg-dev
> dpkg-ftp
> libgdbm1
> libgdbmg1
> 
> And I think that should do it.
> 
> Then you should be able to run dselect to grab the rest. I think there is
> a script for it, I have always done it manually.
> 
> George Bonser
> 
> Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today?
> 

Thank George for the reply but i want upgrade from cdrom not ftp
site, i think and hope it's necessary to refresh the package database
running dselect and after install all packages target .

if it's correct i think  Debian can upgrade without reboot during
installation ????


tks Tony

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