Re: apt-get dist-upgrade
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 02:14:43AM +0000, Preston Landers wrote:
> I'm having problems with using apt-get dist-upgrade to get from Debian
> 2.0 to 2.1. My system currently has many slink packages installed, but
> not all of them, and I would like apt-get to just upgrade them all for
> me.
>
> I've got apt 0.1.9 installed and I've edited my /etc/apt/sources.list to
> point to frozen. I do a apt-get update and everything appears to be
> fine. However, apt-get dist-upgrade does nothing. Even though I have
> /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to frozen, it just upgraded a couple of
> packages (rvplayer, pine, some other things) and quit. Didn't upgrade
> my entire system... I know I have more outdated hamm packages than that.
>
> Also, I can't do apt-get install anything. It just says there is no
> installation candidates. I've double checked my /etc/apt/sources.list
> as I've said, and run apt-get update a thousand times. It simply
> doesn't seem to "see" that there are all these wonderful new packages
> out there to upgrade.
>
> Does this sound familiar to anyone? Any suggestions? Thanks in
> advance!!!
>
Did you run "apt-get update" after changing the sources list? Unless
you do, apt-get doesn't know what packages are available in frozen.
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