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Re: Serious problems after "apt-get dist-upgrade"



On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 12:35:19PM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote:
> 
> That was a very powerful command that I will remember
> for later use...after I reinstall Woody and start
> over.  Tons of things were installed that "apt-get
> dist-upgrade" missed but they ended up hosing the
> system.  I had to boot off of the floppy and re-run
> LILO even.  After I got the kernel going the X-windows
> system was missing a bunch of things.

It works fine when you go from one (former) stable release to another,
though you would probably have to enter it several times.

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