Moritz Beller wrote:
What are the 8 apt wants to remove? Can you live without them? Do you need them? What will replace those 8? My advice is to NOT dist-upgrade until you can have some down time for safety's sake. Dist-upgrade usually works, sometime by performing some contortions with dpkg, sometime smoothly. The rule of thumb to follow here is: don't fix it if it isn't broke. You need if for *very* important projects. wait until you can do it safely. Conversely, if you feel you *must* have the upgrade, make a back up so you can restore in a matter of moments if it does not work for you.Hello! Since there are some very serious security problems in the Linux kernel of version 2.4 I wanted to update my debian system in order to get the current Linux kernel 2.6. So, by calling apt-get dist-upgrade with root permissions I get the following output: 723 updated, 72 new installed, 8 to delete and 4 not-updated. ... After unpacking 151MB of extra memory are needed. However, I am working on some *very* important projects at the moment. So, if there is any risk of getting a system crash by updatingthe os, please warn me or just say "no".Thanks. Yours Moritz
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