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Re: apt-get upgrade question



--- Richard Kimber <rkimber@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Having recently installed 3.0, I decided to stick
> with testing and did
> apt-get update followed by apt-get upgrade
> 
> This produced quite a lot of errors of the type:-
> 
> Get:13 ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk testing/main
> xfree86-common 4.1.0-17 [547kB]    
>               
> Err ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk testing/main xfree86-common
> 4.1.0-17               
>               
>   Unable to fetch file, server said
>
'/pub/debian/pool/main/x/xfree86/xfree86-common_4.1.0-17_all.deb:
> No such
> file or directory.  '
> 
> My question is: have I done something wrong? If not,
> what is the correct
> procedure now, given the error messages?
> 
> Thanks,

3.0 is not testing but stable. If you want to move to
testing, you'll want to edit your
/etc/apt/sources.list to point to testing, then do
``apt-get update'' followed by ``apt-get -u
dist-upgrade'' .


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