Re: Slink->Potato, Perl version
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:00:18AM +0200, Marcus wrote:
>
> I have slink installed and want to upgrade to potato, but I'm
> relatively new to Debian (and Linux). I read two explanations on
> upgrading, but still have a few newbie type questions:
>
> Is "apt-get upgrade" sufficient, and what does "apt-get dist-upgrade"
> do?
> I read that I should make sure all packages are _not_ on hold. Is there
> an easy way to do that without dselect?
>
> Perl 5.6x is not in potato, and if I upgrade I'd like to ignore
> Perl-5.005 and get 5.6. How do I do that using apt-get?
>
> Primarily I'm interested in upgrading to Perl 5.6, latest Gnome, and
> Xfree 4 (It has TT-Fonts, I believe?), but from what I read, a system
> upgrade is recommended.
>
It appears you'll want to upgrade past potato all the way up to woody
(testing). Potato has only Perl-5.005, Xfree 3.3.x, Gnome 1.0.56 (i think,
that or 58... 1.0.x anyway).
Hope I've helped...
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