Re: Unidentified subject!
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 18:44:44 Kent West wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 December 2001 04:43 pm, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > I have a Debian Potato. I would like to use Balsa 1.2.3, which is
> > available as
> > part of Debian Woody. I have read in many places that an upgrade
> > from potato to
> > woody is easy, but I must be missing something.
> >
> > apt-get dist-upgrade <cr>
> >
> > is not enough. What am I missing?
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > PS Am I crazy to comtemplate this upgrade?
>
> You need to change your /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to
unstable
> instead of stable (except the security line), then
What is "the security line"?
> apt-get update
> then
> apt-get dist-upgrade or apt-get install balsa to get
just what's needed
> instead of an entire dist upgrade.
>
> Kent
>
>
Paul
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