Re: Upgrade to KDE 3.1
Thus spake Fraser Campbell (fraser@wehave.net):
...
> What I would usually do (and there may be a better way) is on the new PC I
> would add the appropriate URL to /etc/apt/sources.list for retreiving the
> debs and then run an "apt-get update" to make the computer aware of the
> available updates.
>
> Next I would copy all of the debs to /var/cache/apt/archives on the new PC and
> simply run "apt-get dist-upgrade". This way you can use apt to solve any
> dependency issues for you but still use the pre-downloaded files.
I did this on my wife's machine, going from 2.2 (standard woody) to
3.1 and some packages were not updated properly - in fact I think they
were removed and no replacement installed. Unfortunately I cannot
recall the details - it was moderately traumatic, as I thought she'd
said to go ahead and do it and she thought she hadn't....
It's all OK now, but it wasn't as smooth as it could have been.
caveat emptor.
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