> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:17:46AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > > > > > I'm trying to upgrade my slink system to potato (I need a newer > > > ppp version). I first used dselect to have a look at the new > > > package in potato but when I run "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade" > > > apt tells me there are no packages to upgrade. Apparently apt thinks > > > my system is already up-to-date. Any idea how I can convince apt > > > to do the upgrade anyway? > > <WARNING TYPE="important"> > Are you sure you want to go to potato? Things are rather unstable at the > moment, more so than usual. If you can't deal with random breakage, you > may want to stay with slink. > </WARNING>
I've been running potato on my laptop without problems for some time now. I installed it mainly for the gnome stuff which wasn't (isn't?) available for slink at that time. I haven't had much problems with it (except for some installation problems where packages didn't like eachother :-). > > > then you can run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. If you don't > > want to go all the way with potato, I belive you can just do am > > apt-get install ppp-whatever and it'll upgrade the necessary > > packages for you. Check out the man page and /usr/doc/apt for more > > info. > > You may not have much luck installing potato debs on a slink system, since > potato uses glibc 2.1 while slink has 2.0, and nearly everything depends > on glibc (aka libc6). You could always download the sources from potato > and try compiling them on your slink system... That's exactly why I wanted to upgrade the whole system in stead of just the ppp package. I considered downloading the source and compiling it myself but that would make it difficult to upgrade later on. That's the one thing about packages that I don't like: it's so hard to mix packages with your own self-compiled applications :-( Anyway, as the previous guy suggested: I did indeed stupidly forget to update /etc/apt/sources.list :-) Nico -- -------------------------------------------------------- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? -------------------------------------------------------- Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
