J F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> TekMate wrote:
>> tom wrote:
>>>OK, I finally got my potato distro connected to the
>>>internet. I want to upgrade to Woody over the internet. I forgot how to
>>>do it.
>>>
>>>Anyone remember?
>>
>> Apt-get dist-upgrade
>> remember to change your sources in /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> Why wouldn't
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
> bring him up to latest woody?
Because 'apt-get upgrade' won't install new packages or remove
existing packages, so if you have anything whose dependencies have
changed, it won't get upgraded (practically, probably meaning nothing
on your system will change at all).
I'd recommend against using apt-get directly for this (or most other
things): it will probably tell you that it wants to upgrade a couple
hundred packages and remove a few dozen, but if you don't agree with
its decisions, there's not much you can do about it. I recommend
using aptitude, the console APT frontend, but make sure you use the
woody aptitude, which is much better than the potato aptitude. :-)
1. Change /etc/apt/sources.list
2. 'apt-get upgrade'
3. 'apt-get install aptitude'
a. Wait while a big chunk of things are upgraded; you probably
get a free libc6 update with this
4. 'aptitude'
a. 'u' to update the package listing
b. '+', '-', '=' to install, uninstall, hold packages
c. 'M' to mark a package automatically installed (e.g., library
packages; aptitude will remove these if nothing depends on
them)
d. 'g' to get the listing of what aptitude wants to do; 'g' again
to make it go
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