On Monday, 18.07.2005 at 18:28 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (18/07/05 09:43), Robert Kopp wrote: > > In February I installed Sarge, a release from Dec. > > 2004, which was then the "testing" release. Now the > > most current release of Sarge is stable. By changing > > "testing" to "stable" in sources.list, I can install > > individual packages that aren't already there, but > > would like to know if it's possible to to upgrade the > > entire installation to what Sarge is now, as a stable > > release (for example, with KDE 3.3). Many other Debian > > users must have already done this, if it is possible. > > Sarge to testing is a 'downgrade' and under normal circumstances may > well break your installation. I don't think that's right, nor what he's asking. He's talking about an 'old' testing installation (when Sarge was testing) upgrading to a new Sarge (stable). In other words, "Old Sarge" to "New Sarge". I would have thought that you should simply be able to apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade etc. and get your whole installation updated. Changing 'testing' to 'stable' in your sources.list is the correct way to achieve what you're describing and is *not* a downgrade, unless you installed new packages following the release of Sarge and while you still had 'testing' in your sources.list (assuming you'd also done an 'apt-get update' of course). Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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