Re: dpkg/dselect misbehavior
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 10:42, Stephan Sauerburger wrote:
> Oh man.. I just spent about 4 days installing packages and reconfiguring
> it from scratch, including rolling a new kernel. Not having to completely
> redo all of it again from a Woody CD would be most preferred. Is there
> any sort of Potato-to-Woody (2.2 to 3.0) automated update procedure implemented?
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 08:57:43AM -0500, ronin2@bellatlantic.net wrote:
> >On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:22:26 -0500
> >Stephan Sauerburger <stephan@sauerburger.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I just installed Debian from a Deb 2.2 Potato CD after a hard drive
> >> crash which occurred about a month ago. I used the same CD I did for
> >> the previous install, and as far as I can tell, the same installation
> >> procedure -
> >
> >Welcome back to the world, Rip. :)
> >
> >While you were sleeping Woody became the stable distribution (it's been
> >stable since last July).
> >
> >In fact, a revision has been released and Woodyr1 is now stable.
> >
> >Potato is still in the Debian archives, but many are expecting support
> >to be discontinued in a few months. Since you're installing to a new
> >hard drive from scratch anyway, this might be a good time to move up to
> >Woodyr1.
> >
> >A 2.2 kernel is installed by default; for a 2.4 kernel just type "bf24"
> >at the initial prompt when you boot the installation CD.
> >
> >Kevin
> >
> >
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Just make sure /etc/apt/sources.list has stable sources and do a
dselect update && apt-get install apt dpkg && apt-get -u dist-upgrade
now enjoy your new woody system. Ahh the beauty of Debian and apt.
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