Re: Upgrade to Woody
Curt Howland said:
> So it looks as if most of my present problems are version based, the
> fact that Debian Potato[e] tends to be somewhat old in software
> versions.
>
> I'd like to upgrade to Woody, Kernel 2.4.x, XFree 4.x, etc.
>
> So I put "testing" in place of "stable" in the /etc/apt/sources.whatever
> file, and tried to dselect my way to bliss.
>
> However, the package dependencies are so weird that I could not
> rationalize the results. Why would Libc6 have been un-selected is beyond
> my ken.
>
> Can someone suggest a command line "apt-get -install && update" or
> similar mystic arcanity? For all the wonder and joy that Dselect usually
> bestows, this seems to be just like last year at this time when I
> finally updated to Potato[e], it was a command line leap of faith.
apt-get dist-upgrade is much more user-friendly than dselect :-)
HTH,
Craig
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Craig Holyoak
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