Curt Howland said: > So it looks as if most of my present problems are version based, the > fact that Debian Potato[e] tends to be somewhat old in software > versions. > > I'd like to upgrade to Woody, Kernel 2.4.x, XFree 4.x, etc. > > So I put "testing" in place of "stable" in the /etc/apt/sources.whatever > file, and tried to dselect my way to bliss. > > However, the package dependencies are so weird that I could not > rationalize the results. Why would Libc6 have been un-selected is beyond > my ken. > > Can someone suggest a command line "apt-get -install && update" or > similar mystic arcanity? For all the wonder and joy that Dselect usually > bestows, this seems to be just like last year at this time when I > finally updated to Potato[e], it was a command line leap of faith.
apt-get dist-upgrade is much more user-friendly than dselect :-) HTH, Craig -- Craig Holyoak [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uq.net.au/craigh/
