On Friday 20 February 2009 00:44:11 Chris Jones wrote: > > > 2. apt-get update > > > 2. replace "etch" by "lenny" in /etc/sources.list > > > > These steps need to be reversed, obviously. > > Thought the "apt-get update" stage ensured system was up-to-date before > the upgrade plunge, thus that my apt sources should point to the "etch" > repository.
Herewith a simplistic explanation. I'm sure that I shall get corrected where I have deviated from the strictly technically correct! ;-) apt-get update doesn't render the system up-to-date. It updates the list of available packages. So if you want to upgrade to Lenny, you must first update your list of available packages to Lenny: therefore you must alter your sources.list _before_ you update the list of available packages. Otherwise you won't get a proper upgrade because your system will not know what is available. HTH Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
