Re: [Debian] can't upgrade from slink to potato

1999-07-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 08:08:10AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > I installed it mainly for the gnome stuff which wasn't (isn't?) available for > slink at that time. I haven't had much problems with it (except for some There's an aptable area for slink on the GNOME FTP sites. Check the installa

Re: [Debian] can't upgrade from slink to potato

1999-07-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Nico" == Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nico> That's exactly why I wanted to upgrade the whole system in stead Nico> of just the ppp package. I considered downloading the source Nico> and compiling it myself but that would make it difficult to Nico> upgrade later on. Actually, h

Re: [Debian] can't upgrade from slink to potato

1999-07-06 Thread Nico De Ranter
> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:17:46AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > > > > > I'm trying to upgrade my slink system to potato (I need a newer > > > ppp version). I first used dselect to have a look at the new > > > package in potato but when I run "ap

Re: [Debian] can't upgrade from slink to potato

1999-07-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:19:46PM -0500, Brad wrote: > You may not have much luck installing potato debs on a slink system, since > potato uses glibc 2.1 while slink has 2.0, and nearly everything depends > on glibc (aka libc6). You could always download the sources from potato > and try compilin

Re: [Debian] can't upgrade from slink to potato

1999-07-05 Thread Brad
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:17:46AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > > > I'm trying to upgrade my slink system to potato (I need a newer > > ppp version). I first used dselect to have a look at the new > > package in potato but when I run "apt-get update;

Re: [Debian] can't upgrade from slink to potato

1999-07-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:17:46AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Howdy, > > I'm trying to upgrade my slink system to potato (I need a newer > ppp version). I first used dselect to have a look at the new > package in potato but when I run "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade" > apt tells me t

[Debian] can't upgrade from slink to potato

1999-07-05 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I'm trying to upgrade my slink system to potato (I need a newer ppp version). I first used dselect to have a look at the new package in potato but when I run "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade" apt tells me there are no packages to upgrade. Apparently apt thinks my system is already u