On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 12:58:11PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > >I am going to upgrade from Debian slink 2.1 to potato. Can >anybody tell me if I am wrong about the procedure? Actually, >I am working with a spanish non-official Debian distribution >and it includes apt-get, Kde, gnome, etc. I am not sure about >the consequences of upgrading to the official distribution.
I can't tell you anything about upgrading from an unofficial distribution, but I think there shouldn't be any problems. You know that potato still isn't supposed to be stable, don't you? Maybe you should wait some weeks for the stable release, although I use potato for about four months now, sometimes with _very_ serious bugs and broken dependencies that nearly broke my system. I for my person will do the upgrade to woody this weekend, I think. But I wouldn' recommand that to anybody who doesn't know what he's doing! >1) I need to change /etc/apt/sources.list so that it will only >include the following lines: >deb ftp://ftp.usc.es/pub/mirror/linux/debian potato main contrib >non-free >deb http://ceu.fi.udc.es/debian-non-US potato non-US/main non-US/contrib >non-US/non-free Looks OK. >2) Now, as root, >dpkg --get-selections "*" Never heard about that. apt-get uses dpkg as a backend, so it knows what packages are installed on your system. I you think you need it, use it, but I've done the upgrade without it. >apt-get update If you plan to use dselect to install packages in the future you might want to run 'dselect update' instead so dselect also knows about the package-lists. >apt-get install apt debconf looks OK... Maybe it's a good idea to upgrade apt and install debconf, as you plan to do, but I've also done it without that. >apt-get -f dist-upgrade If I were you, I'd try it without the -f before, and if it fails upgrading, just start it again using the -f switch. >Do I need to take any precaution to execute the aforementioned commands? >I think that I do not have to change to single user mode, etc. I think you won't have modem access in single user mode. But after an upgrade I'd maybe reboot the system once. Due to the glibc-upgrade there might be some problems without rebooting, although the package tries to execute some work-arounds. > >3) From now on, if I want to upgrade to the latest release of potato I >will have to do: >apt-get update >apt-get upgrade That's it, but I always use dist-upgrade instead of upgrade. But that's some kind of religious question I guess :-) Are there any arguments against using dist-upgrade all the time? Hope I could help you. Tobias
