Re: newbie question

[Peter Hugosson-Miller <pehu@im.se>]

Joerg Johannes wrote:

> On Wednesday 09 April 2003 21:18, Josh wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 20:02, JK Malakar wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > how to upgrade the existing debian version without reinstalling ?
> > > (for an ex. potato to woody)
> > >
> > > thanks in advanced.
> >
> > edit /etc/apt/sources.list
> > change potato occurence to woody .
> >
>
> If you're installing from a CD set, you will also have to insert the CD's and
> run apt-cdrom for each of them.
>
> joerg

Don't you have to do something wierd with apt-get itself? Like install a
statically compiled version, so that it doesn't break down while updating itself?

I never figured that one out, but I remember reading it on the upgrade
instructions...


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