On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 05:16:02AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>What would the steps be to go from sarge stable to sarge unstable using
>apt-get? For now I'm restricted to console mode until or unless I
>figure out how to get debian's xwindows interface talking.
First off, Sarge is the stable release, Sid is the (permanent) name of
unstable. :-)
Step one is to think once again of why you are doing this!
Step two is to edit /etc/apt/sources.list. This is the relevant part of
mine:
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
Yes, you should include 'testing' as well as 'unstable'.
Step three is to run `apt-get update`, then `apt-get dist-upgrade`. If
you're religious this is a good time to pray...
/M
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