Re: Old Release
Ok, you are asking two questions here, Before answering them, can I point
you at http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html which will make
getting answers to your debian based questions easier.
Thanks for the link,
This is because you are running woody, also known as stable. The idea behind
stable is that it is very stable, stable enough to run for years without
crashing, stable enough that you could forget your root password to a woody
server and it wouldn't be a problem, stable enough that the very earth
could be rent asunder a woody box and it wouldn't fall over.
Because most people don't have the need for such a platform, and would
prefer a more up to date packages, debian has two other streams. They are
called steams because your can't really install them. Instead you install
stable and then jump on a stream.
The two streams:
Testing aka Sarge
This is the next stable release and the debian devs upload new packages in a
effort to fix all the bugs in it. It will be released to replace woody at
some point.
unstable aka sid
This is where the newest packages are tested. Unstable is very cutting edge,
with new versions as up to date as possible. to give an example of this,
when kde 3.3 was released, it was in unstable before any other distro had
it.
More information about both streams is just a google away.
to switch to one of the two streams open the file /etc/apt/sources.list and
change all references to stable with testing or unstable. Then run apt-get
update && apt-get dist-upgrade . Warning: this may well break your system.
once again, more information is a google away
my /etc/apt/source.list get file from /cdrom, i have 7 CD of woody, and
all line references to unstable.
here is some snip for detail;
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r3 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-6
(20041027)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
non-US/non-free non-free
debian:/# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
how do i upgrade my package, (ex:KDE), should i switch my source to
debian package repository ? and if yes, what repository should i use ?
please enlight this noob.
regards
reza
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