On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:47:55 -0600 (CST) Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've installed woody from potato via dist-upgrade "apt-get --fix-broken > --show-upgraded dist-upgrade" now three times in the past year; twice on > my own machine and twice on others, and have allways been successful. The > first time, dpkg couldn't preconfigure and I had to start installing > packages one by one with apt-get until I finally found out the complaint > was that I didn't have apt-utils (if I remember correctly); after I > installed that, everything was fine. I think one other time I had to run > dist-upgrade to get everything to download and install, but that was no > big problem. A lot of the trick with upgrading to woody from potato is > making sure everything downloads. The two things that can prevent this > that I can think of immediately are: a ppp connection that broke off--but > you should know about this because you'll get messages; and either not > having the right lines in your sources.list or, if your potato lines are > still there too, not having the woody lines in the right place, above the > potato lines. Of course, I know it's not that simple; there are plenty of > other things that can go wrong, but these were the ones that I found. At > any rate, I'd be pretty comfortable now upgrading from potato to woody if > I had to do it on a machine of my own or for somebody else.
One suggestion might be to do: apt-get -d dist-upgrade apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade So, if your ppp (or broadband, for that matter) link goes down, your system isn't messed up. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | ! "As I like to joke, I may have invented it, but Microsoft | | made it popular" David Bradley, regarding Ctrl-Alt-Del | +------------------------------------------------------------+
