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Re: Upgrading to a new release



On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:02:12AM -0700, Paul Burkett wrote:
> Basically, I have Debian Woody (3.0) CDs and since I
> didn't want to burn a new CD for unstable, I went
> ahead and installed it. Now what I want to know is,
> how do I upgrade to unstable? Is it a matter of adding
> APT::Default-Release "testing"; to /etc/apt.conf, and
> adding unstable to the sources.list? Or will I have to
> add a pin priority? One of the Debian Manuals
> recommends 
> using dselect instead of APT to upgrade to new
> releases, is this a better way of doing it? Or should
> I just do an apt-get dist-upgrade? Any help would be
> much 
> appreciated. Thanks!


Basically just edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace all occurences of
the word stable with unstable.

Then do apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade.

That's what I usually do. I feel that this is the best/easiest way to
get unstable onto my computer.

Bijan
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Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com>
http://www.crasseux.com

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