Hi, Jochen. 1) You are correct. It should have been:
>Then, I did: >sudo apt-get check >sudo apt-get update >sudo apt-get upgrade >sudo clean >sudo autoclean >sudo autoremove My mistake. Sorry. 2) Run dist-upgrades? No one mentioned that (to me), and I did not know anything about that. Hopefully I can find some information on that. I thought that once I upgraded to testing, I would be much like stable - just generally sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, and check, clean, autoclean, and autoremove from time to time. 3) No, I don't want to make it easy to break my system, but I do want/need to track testing. Stable is just too stale. I don't feel like testing, unstable, etc. should be only for the nobles, and denied to the mere peasants (like me). I have read/heard all the warnings about system breakage. I do back up my data. And I can reinstall if necessary. I have begun to suspect that the Debian "powers that be" deliberately don't make upgrading to testing/unstable/experimental clear and easy, in order to discourage people from doing it. Speculating upon the reasons that might be is left as an exercise for the reader . . . ;-) On 1/25/16, Jochen Spieker <m...@well-adjusted.de> wrote: > Francis Gerund: >> >> Then, I did: >> >> sudo check >> sudo update >> sudo upgrade >> clean >> autoclean >> autoremove > > What are these supposed to do? I suppose they are apt operations, but > don't make us guess. Always quote the exact commands you are using. > >> But, should I now do: >> >> sudo apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade >> sudo dist-upgrade > > If you want to track testing, you will need to run dist-upgrades from > time to time. If you upgrade from stable without doing that, your > upgrade is incomplete. You should know that if you want to run testing. > >> Which brings me to my final point. I honestly thought it was a >> simple,easy question, that would relatively quickly receive a simple, >> easy response. I was surprised that upgrading from stable to testing >> is still not a simple, clear, idiot-proof operation. After all, this >> is 2016 . . . right? > > Do you want to make it easy to break your system? Because that's what > tracking testing or unstable can do. If you run anything but stable, you > need a certain set of skills so that you are able to fix many problems > yourself and report issues that are not only temporary and might affect > other users. > > J. > -- > I am getting worse rather than better. > [Agree] [Disagree] > > <http://archive.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html> >
