Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.
On 19 Jan 99 07:17:49 GMT, mark@ist.flinders.edu.au (Mark Phillips)
wrote:
>I've just installed the slink version of apt-get. Am I right in
>thinking that to upgrade to slink, I should run:
>
>apt-get update
>apt-get dist-upgrade
Yep.
>Is this at all dangerous?
Slink hasn't been released officially, so there is a small element of
risk involved. It's more likely that a couple of packages may be
awkward to install than anything serious though.
>What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle?
apt-get will pick up the download when you re-connect, keeping
downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives with partial downloads
in [...]/partial. It doesn't install a thing until it's downloaded
the lot, so make sure you have enough disk space.
Rob Wilderspin
--
"But I need it to crash once every few days -
reboots are the only chance I get to sleep..."
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