Re: Woody???
Rehi!
Replying to my own post since I forgot to mention something. I will leave
the quote intact so that if someone is looking for it in the archive has
access to the full piece of advice. Ok, here's what I forgot to mention:
As far as I remember, X has been kept back during the update, so after
uprading I still had the old X11 (3.3.6). So I
- uninstalled the old X stuff (xserver-svga and xserver-vga16,
xserver-common-v3, maybe also a few others; don't recall exactly)
You can get a list of the old installed X packages by typing
dpkg -l | grep xserver
- Kept looking for the new one (4.1.0) by doing
apt-cache search --names-only xserver
===> xserver-xfree86 seemed new to me, so I looked at it more closely by
issuing
apt-cache show xserver-xfree86
which revealed the new version number
- installed the new XFree86 by issuing
apt-get install xserver-xfree86
Hope this will be helpful to users wanting to upgrade to Woody. (I also
took the time to write this to prevent unecessary and unjustified attacks
against the other subscribers as recently done by Matthias).
Greetings,
Holger
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Holger Rauch wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The following suggestion worked well for me:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200201/msg05307.html
>
> I did "dselect update" instead of "apt-get update" since that will update
> the "available" file as well (which is useful when using "tasksel"). In
> addition, you might consider just updating "apt" in the very beginning
> instead of upgrading the packages
>
> apt apt-utils dpkg debconf perl
>
> at once (even though the original suggestion worked well for me). The only
> problem I came accross that the kdelibs package could not be upgraded. I
> solved this by removing all the KDE stuff and reinstalled it via
> "tasksel" (using option "desktop environment").
>
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Mattias Berg wrote:
>
> > I'l need to dist-upgrade to woody due kernelchange.. didn't work.. totally
> > fuck'd up my server... Try'd to reinstall debian and try with unstable...
> > didn't work.. totally fuck'd up my server...
>
> How did you do it? What *precisely* did you do?
>
> > What the hell are you doing over there? Debian used to be a stable and
> > trustable distribution (95% even with unstable dist-upgrade) for just about
> > a year ago..
>
> I can't speak for unstable, since I'm using testing with kernel 2.4.18,
> but I think Debian testing *is* very stable compared to other distros. I
> got the impression that the Debian developers and maintainers are working
> very hard and are doing a good job. Thus, they simply do not deserve
> statements like yours.
>
> > I have been running debian since i was 18 years old.. (i'm 23 now)..
> > But i will search for a more stable distribution.. Debian sucks big time..
>
> Strange. If you have *really* been using Debian for five years now, you
> should be familiar with administrating a Debian system, especially with
> upgrading (unless you've never upgraded your system before). Another
> advice I can give you is simply to ask for help (or search the
> archives) *before* you are actually performing the upgrade. Speaking from
> experience, the subscribers of the debian-user list are really kind people
> and are willing to help you if you encounter problems.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Holger
>
>
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