Re: Question on installing packages and upgrading
> apt is already installed.
Then dependencies should be met automatically. If they aren't, you
should perhaps submit a bug against apt.
> > I personally have been using potato for months now with only a few
> > problems, so upgrading to potato "early" wouldn't be a terrible idea.
>
> But how would one do this? Go online, enter apt-get dist-upgrade, and
> wait for.... well, a too long time. I can download 10 MB per hour,
> maybe 20 if I manage to get ISDN to work. Downloading a whole
> distrinution via apt would take days
But you don't download the whole distribution, just the packages you
actually have installed. I dist-upgraded to potato over 56K modem,
and it took like six hours.
> and I do not want to be online for such a long time. I wouldn't work
> anyway, because the phone would not hold for such a long time
> without dropping the carrier. And it's too expensive.
That's a separate problem, of course.
> So, are there other options? I guess I could download the whole potato
> tree of the ftp server (the connection at work is fast), put it onto
> some CDs, extract the tree to my harddisk, and use apt to upgrade.
Or you could download the two ISO images for the Debian CDs and use
the apt-cdrom method to install.
> So I guess I would have to wait for potato being stable, and then get
> a new CD image.
Not necessarily a bad idea.
> Or switch to Mandrake... <duck>
If you find it the best choice for you, go for it.
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