RE: How to upgrade ?
On 21 May 1998, Goetzke, Christopher L 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 ???
>
> All right, total Debian newbie question. Is 2.0 out? Is it available
> at ftp.debian.org? I'm pretty sure it's not what I'm seeing using
> dselect to for the default "stable non-free contrib" sections.
Debian 2.0 is not yet released, but it IS available, and in most cases is
quite usable. It has been frozen and is in the pre-release testing stage.
You can find it in frozen frozen/non-free frozen/non-free/contrib.
>
> > If you are comfortable manually ftping packages and installing them
> > manually with dpkg -i then you can probably get away with this:
>
> What does this do to dselect? I assume it's non-harmful, since dselect
> is just a front-end to dpkg (it is, isn't it)?
If you really don't know EXACTLY what you are doing and how to deal with
dependency conflicts, I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you look at the
libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO and the excellent upgrade script. Links to both of
these can be found at http://www.debian.org/developers_corner.html.
Basically, what you should do is install several packages by hand and
aafter that has been accomplished, it is safe use dselect to complete the
upgrade. The HOWTO explains all this and the script will do it for you.
> > 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
>
> When I go fishing into hamm for libc6, it says it conflicts with libc5
> (which, of course, is on my system), so it won't install. And libc5 is
> kinda important, so I don't want to go ripping it out, right? So how do
> I upgrade? Is there some magic version of that ldso that lets libc6
> slide in next to libc5?
>
The HOWTO tells how to accomplish this and the script will do it for you.
IIRC, the plan is to be able to use apt to accomplish all this with even
less pain. I haven't tried that method of upgrade myself but don't
believe it is quite ready. Apt is quite slick, however. I have been
using it with dselect for a few weeks and prefer it to the other methods I
have used for installing packages.
Bob
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