Re: Migrating to Debian: questions
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:41:02 -0400, linuxnand@netscape.net
<linuxnand@netscape.net> wrote:
> I have installed 3.0R2. It installed kernel 2.2 instead of 2.4. Now, how can I use apt to have the 2.4 installed?
If you haven't already, turn on bash_completion (smart tab completion)
by typing 'source /etc/bash_completion' or entering that into a
.bashrc or similar and restarting your bash.
Then do apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.<tab>
By <tab> I mean press the tab key. That should show you all the
kernel images available under woody (3.0R2).
> Also, how can I change the sources.list to upgrade my system to the new packages like gnome 2.6, KDE 3.3, Mozilla 1.7, etc.
For that you need to either use backports, which I think are available
from apt-get.org, or upgrade to testing (sarge) or unstable (sid). To
do this, edit /etc/apt/sources.list, changing all mentions of "woody"
or "stable" to "sarge". Then type apt-get update and then apt-get
dist-upgrade. Be aware that this might not be smooth and there are
currently problems with nautilus in testing and unstable.
> In order to have Kernel 2.6, I guess I have to compile it manually myself, right? Well, that I have done before. Or can I do it with apt-get.
You can do it with apt-get, but I'm not sure whether that's only true
for unstable (sid).
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