Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?
Hello,
I've been using Slackware for a little over a year now, and have loved it
except for one thing: installing programs. Most of the time it goes just
fine, but the 10% or 20% of the time when it doesn't, it's incredibly
frustrating. After spending an entire day last week trying to get TuxRacer
(and its dependencies) installed, I decided to try Debian.
I used jigdo-lite to make CDs of the first two discs for "stable" (3.0r2).
That's all up and running, and of course it's really old. I want to upgrade
to "testing" but I'm not exactly sure how. I'm currently at this page:
ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/sarge/jigdo/
...and I see that there are 12 ISO images for i386. I'm downloading them
now with jigdo-lite (I'm on disc 4!), but I think there's got to be a better
way using apt-get.
So I came across this thread:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200202/msg01764.html
...and it makes me think that I can put lines into /etc/apt/preferences
and/or /etc/apt/apt.conf that will cause "apt-get upgrade" to upgrade me to
the testing release. Is that correct? If so, exactly what do I need to put
into those files? Currently, neither of those files exist on my system.
Thanks,
Anthony
http://nodivisions.com/
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