Re: Upgrading over the internet
man apt-get says that "dist-upgrade" has some more dependency resolution
smarts that's useful for changes made between distributions. From my
own perusal of package repositories I know there are "dummy" packages to
ease transitions between different implementations of some programs.
Cheers,
Bret
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 21:15, J F wrote:
> TekMate wrote:
> > tom wrote:
> >>OK, I finally got my potato distro connected to the
> >>internet. I want to upgrade to Woody over the internet. I forgot how to
> >>do it.
> >>
> >>Anyone remember?
> >
> > Apt-get dist-upgrade
> > remember to change your sources in /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> Why wouldn't
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
> bring him up to latest woody?
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