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RE: newbie question



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Hugosson-Miller [mailto:pehu@im.se]
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 9:31 AM
> To: Debian-users
> Subject: Re: newbie question
> 
> 
> 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...
> 
> 

When I went from Potato to Woody on two different machines (one being a Mac)
all I did was apt-get update followed by an apt-get dist-upgrade and I was
smokin'.  It sounds like others have had problems though?

Barry deFreese
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