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Re: Help, I hosed my machine's software selection :-(



On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:49:44PM -0400, stan wrote:
> I made teh stupid mistake of copying /etc/apt/sources from one machine
> to another.  Problem is, I did not copy the preferences file also, and
> the new sources had a line referencing unstable.
> 
> I then used dselect, and it upgraded 200= packages!
> 
> At the monent, my system's pretty hosed (gnome does not work at all
> for instance).

Follow-up to my previous post (since stan had some questions)

Please read my DDP web page indicated below.

Basically, command to run after modifying preferences are:

# apt-get update; apt-get upgrade

Cherrs :)
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.
 See "Debian reference": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/quick-reference/
 Project at: http://qref.sf.net
.
 I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections.


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