Re: Upgrade to slink
On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Shao Zhang wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I am thinking about upgrading from hamm to slink via modem. But I
> > am not sure how to do it..
> >
> > Could someone please point me out some documents to read or give
> > me some suggestions?
>
> Use "apt-get upgrade-dist" (or upgrade dist), there is an option for
> it. Since hamm and slink are not that different, you can also just
> switch your paths in dselect to point to slink and run select once and
> install and configure a few times. Be careful, you'll need to manually
> select packages like xterm and nfs-server since the former packgaes
> were splitted.
That should be 'apt-get dist-upgrade' and it works quite well (you will
probably need to run dselect install more than once).
Bob
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