Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:16:00 +0000 (UTC)
debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> Anyhow, I've got my aptitude working again, and I'm profoundly
> grateful for the help you and others gave me. The essential problem
> was having "stable" instead of "sarge" in my sources.list. Sometime
> or other, I will be upgrading - maybe to lenny when it comes out
> rather than etch.
Glad to hear you got aptitude working again.
When I first tried to upgrade from Sarge to Etch (when Etch was still
testing), it was a failure, because the change between the two was too
great. So, I ended up destroying my system. Perhaps if I had waited
until Etch was stable before upgrading from Sarge to Etch, it may have
been smoother. I briefly used PCLinuxOS, and then, once Etch was
stable, went back to Debian with a new install of it (over PCLOS).
Anyway, from my experience, I feel doing such a drastic upgrade may not
be smooth. So, I recommend doing a thorough backup first if you attempt
an upgrade from Sarge to Lenny.
Mark
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