RE: Upgrade
On a somewhat related note, when I install a new system I use one of my
older slink CD's to install the base system. I then update using 'apt-get
update' -> 'apt-get dist-upgrade' before installing packages manually using
'apt-get install packagename'. Note that I don't pick packages at all using
dselect I just skip past that part of the installation. Are there any
caveats to doing the above but modifying my sources.conf to point to potato
before running the update & upgrade and then beginning to install packages?
I haven't used Debian (or any GNU/Linux) in over a year - it's nice to be
back using it again.
Regards, G.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Werner [mailto:reznaeous@earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 12:23 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Upgrade
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 01:13:01PM +0000, Brian Schramm wrote:
> Can anyone tell me a succesfull upgrade process from Slink to potato? I
would like to
> use some software that requires the newer libs in potato and since it
seems to be
> farely stable now I would like to start using it.
Edit you /etc/apt/sources.conf so it reads something like:
# Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits
# your mirror contains.
# deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especial
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib
non-free
(Note: use whatever mirror works best for you)
Then do:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
And sit back and wait. I did it that way with this box and am in the
process of doing it with another box. It might take a while, but it
does work.
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