Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

[Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 10 2015,Reco  wrote:

>  Hi.
>

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> You'll want sources from the backports too probably:
>
> deb-src http://kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id/debian jessie-backports main

thanks for that.

>
>
>> #jessie R packages
>> #deb http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/cran/bin/linux/debian jessie-cran3/
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> 2. followed by
>> 
>> # apt-get update
>> # apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade
>> # apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Since you're going to the trouble of pre-downloading packages
> for dist-upgrade, you might as well pre-download all of them:
>
> apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade

I don't understand,  what does the update between the upgrades give me
in the command sequence above?

> - From the running X session, unless you're know what you're doing.

Why?  Then how do I upgrade?  I'm usually in the KDE desktop terminal
when I try all this.  If I'm supposed to do without X, how do I go to
terminal only login?


 sivaram
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