Re: distribution upgrade question

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>]

First thanks much for the steps for doing this upgrade.  So far as I can 
tell, it's not possible to rebuild gnome with all the accessibility bits 
included without first being on an unstable distro first.  Second the 
Xwindows interface once I get it talking may enable multimedia access 
conssole certainly didn't on the streaming media I tried it out it was 
just audio media and wouldn't work for lack of avisynth.dll which is what 
mplayer claimed it needed. Let's see if I can ask a more intelligent 
question which if it can be done might be a good Step 0 in this upgrade 
process.  Where is the list of installed packages kept on these systems, 
if I can store a list I can make a script out of it and more quickly 
return to where I was if a cd reinstall is necessary using that script to 
download the missing packages?  I think I can use sed to strip the version 
stuff off the end of the package names once I find that list or hope I 
can.

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Magnus Therning wrote:

> 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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