Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote: > Greetings, > > I have got several Debian installations, however, my desktop > machine has Ubuntu 6.06 installed. What I wish to know is if there is an > easy way to change installations (without actually going through the > install) by changing the repositories and doing > > #apt-get dist-upgrade > > as I know that apt has "Super Cow Powers" 8-) > > Is it wise to do it this way? > Has someone else done this? > Any tips, tricks to doing it? > I'm currently running an Ubuntu-made kernel on Debian without any trouble. Some people even set up both as repositories on the same system ;) Where you run into problems is with versions and dependencies: certain software looks for a certain version in its dependencies, and both systems have packages with their own custom version numbers.
It should be fixable though. Any time there is a problem you can --reinstall all related packages. I guess if you really wanted to play it safe, you could --reinstall everything--synaptic should make it easy to do that. There may be other little things to watch out for, e.g. when I installed the Ubuntu kernel, it didn't automatically update grub, so I had to run dpkg-reconfigure on my regular kernel. Angelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
