On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, compwiz wrote:
> I currently have Debian 1.2. I followed the instruction to upgrade the > dpkg tool, but I don't know which packages download, to actually install > Debian 1.3. You'll have to upgrade: - dpkg - ld.so - libc5 - all packages in section base in the above order. Since you already have a running 1.2 system, you might want to use the ftp access method of dselect for this. If you want to do it without dselect then read below. Point dselect to ftp.debian.org or one of the mirrors. Next update the packages information from the ftp site and enter the selection screen. Put everything on hold, except dpkg and install it. Next go back to selection and reselect ld.so for upgrade and install it. Next libc5 (if you've got them installed, you might also want to upgrade libc5-dev and localebin now.) Now you're ready to upgrade all the packages in section base. Just select them all for upgrade and run install. When this is done, you've got a 1.3 debian system and you may want to upgrade some other packages that come as important, standard, optional, contrib and non-free. Do the important and standard packages anyway, since those are more or less part of a basic debian installation anyway. Packages like pgp and ssh are in section non-us and you cannot find them on ftp.debian.org, but there is a list of mirrors in the file README.non-US on ftp.debian.org/debian. It might be easiest to download and install them by hand. If you don't really feel comfortable enough with dselect - the user-friendly frontend to dpkg - you can always download the above mentioned packages and install them by hand with dpkg -iBEG <package>.deb This would also be the way to go if your machine is not (yet) net-connected. Still, if you download the packages yourself it is much nicer to also get the overrides file from the /debian/indices directory and rebuild a packages file for your homegrown debian tree with dpkg-scanpackages. Then tell dselect to use a mounted partition and point it at your selfmade packages file. Requires some reading of manpages though. Good luck, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
