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Re: updating with aptitude



On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:44:06PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +0000, lostson wrote:
> > Hello 
> >  I have a laptop and a desktop machine running sarge. I would like to
> > update them to etch. I am thinking I have heard I can do this with
> > aptitude, is this possible and if so anyone got a links to a good doc?
> > Or can I jsut use my sources list from this machine on the other 2 and
> > do a apt-get update then apt-get upgrade ? Thanks.
> 
> It is possible, just edit '/etc/apt/sources.list' in your favourite
> editor and replace all occurances of "stable" or "sarge" with either
> "testing" (if you want to stay with newer stuff after etch is released)
> or "etch" (if you want to use etch once it becomes 'stable').  Then a
> simple 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' (mind the dist-) will
> update.  Watch your updating however, there have been some changes since
> sarge, like xfree86 -> xorg, so prepare to reinstall some packages and
> deal with some brokenness.
> 
the difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade

before
|sarge|etch|
|x    |    |
|x    |    |
|x    |    |
|x    |    |
|x    |    |
|x    |    |
|x    |    |
|x    |    |
|x    |    |
|x    |    |
|x    |    |

upgrade
|sarge|etch|
|x    |    |
|x    |    |
|     |x   |
|x    |    |
|x    |    |
|     |x   |
|     |x   |
|     |x   |
|     |x   |
|     |x   |
|     |x   |

dist-upgrade
|sarge|etch|
|     |x   |
|     |x   |
|     |x   |
|     |x   |
|     |x   |
|     |x   |
|     |x   |
|     |x   |
|     |x   |
|     |x   |
|     |x   |
cheers,
Kev
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