Hi,
i received you mail twice, but couldn't find it on the mailing list. Had
you sent a copy there, people who know better than me would already have
answered...
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 21:17, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
What do you mean by a dist-upgrade? Is that an apt-get thing?
I've been using dselect pointed to testing and just hitting "ENTER"
7 or 8 times.
Yes, it's an apt-get thing. The command "apt-get update" updates the
local package listings, and "apt-get upgrade" will upgrade any packages
where newer versions are available. This should be quite similar to what
you do with dselect.
And then, there's "apt-get dist-upgrade", that is a lot more thorough
and smarter with dependency handling, but only needed when you upgrade
your debian version, like woody -> sarge. Or so I thought until a few
days ago.
As it turned out, I had to call a dist-upgrade to get the current
version of both cups and OOo. But lo and behold, printing now works
again.
As a side note: I never got very fond of dselect. For normal system
maintenance, apt-get update/upgrade is all you need (plus apt-get offers
a download-only option I find very useful); as a package browser,
someone recommended aptitude which I now like very much. Aptitude is
quite similar to deslect on the first glance, but a lot more powerful
and versatile.
cu,
Schnobs