On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:11:14AM -0500, Shashank Bhide wrote: > > > How do I upgrade from Potato to woody? > > What do I need to change in the sources.list file? The official part of my sources.list file looks like this: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main contrib non-free I use 'woody' instead of 'stable' so that if I somehow manage to miss the sarge freeze, I won't end up with aptitude inadvertently trying to upgrade huge swathes of my system when sarge becomes the new stable. After editing that, you need to run "apt-get update" to make apt aware of the newly-added sources... Then, the command to actually make the change to woody is "apt-get dist-upgrade" Keep in mind, though: There are various packages that some people recommend upgrading with apt-get install *before* doing the dist-upgrade. The only ones I remember off-hand are apt and aptitude. I seem to remember there was some debate as to whether this is actually necessary. PS: this is not something I've actually tried myself, so you might want to see if anyone more experienced jumps in with better advice. HTH -- ,-------------------------------------------------------------------------. > -ScruLoose- | Sometimes I'm ashamed to call myself a Christian, < > Please do not | for all the same reasons that < > reply off-list. | I'm sometimes ashamed to call myself a human being. < `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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