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From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 8:51 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Upgrade to Woody
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 02:05:41PM +0100, Paladin wrote:
> I'm currently using Debian's stable relea
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 23:33, Paladin wrote:
> Just one problem: as soon as I do what you did I get a huge list of
> packages that will be upgrade as well lots that will be removed. In the
> last I are included some that I made myself (probably VERY bad! ;). I
> didn't want this to happen... Any ide
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 00:06:53 +0100
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The output of 'apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade'
> will tell you exactly what apt-get is thinking, although it can be
> rather cryptic if you've never seen it before.
Funny... doing a dist-upgrade doe
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:38:45PM -0700, Rick Commo wrote:
> When you upgrade this way, does your kernel stay at the same level or
> will you be prompted to upgrade to 2.4? (for the record, I would like
> 2.4).
Kernels are never upgraded automatically by the packaging system. You
can choose to u
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 11:33:47PM +0100, Paladin wrote:
> Just one problem: as soon as I do what you did I get a huge list of
> packages that will be upgrade as well lots that will be removed. In the
> last I are included some that I made myself (probably VERY bad! ;). I
> didn't want this to happ
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 15:38:45 -0700
"Rick Commo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When you upgrade this way, does your kernel stay at the same level or
> will you be prompted to upgrade to 2.4? (for the record, I would like
> 2.4).
It doesn't mention it! I don't think I have that packages instaled.
No
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Subject: Re: Upgrade to Woody
On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 17:21:37 +0200
"Joris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> # nano /etc/apt/sources.list (change stable to woody/testing)
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get install apt apt-utils dpkg debconf
> # apt-get -dy
On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 17:21:37 +0200
"Joris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> # nano /etc/apt/sources.list (change stable to woody/testing)
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get install apt apt-utils dpkg debconf
> # apt-get -dy dist-upgrade (just download, doesn't require
> # interference) apt-get dist-u
"D.J. Bolderman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> seb bastos wrote:
>> in'st it the 'stable' field to be replace by 'testing'???
>>
> No. There are 3 options. Stable, Unstable and Testing.
You can also refer to a release by name. So if you say "potato",
you'll get stable now and won't get auto-upda
seb bastos wrote:
in'st it the 'stable' field to be replace by 'testing'???
Bastos
No. There are 3 options. Stable, Unstable and Testing.
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in'st it the 'stable' field to be replace by 'testing'???
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From: "D.J. Bolderman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Upgrade to Woody
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 17:05:20 +0200 (CEST)
> I'm currently using D
Paladin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm currently using Debian's stable release but, due to some delays in the
> versions of some libraries that won't let me compile some programs, I
> would like to upgrade to Woody. My question is (of course): how!?
> Is apt-get dist-upgrade safe enough?
It sho
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 02:05:41PM +0100, Paladin wrote:
> I'm currently using Debian's stable release but, due to some delays in the
> versions of some libraries that won't let me compile some programs, I
> would like to upgrade to Woody. My question is (of course): how!?
Try the release notes, h
> I'm currently using Debian's stable release but, due to some delays in
> the versions of some libraries that won't let me compile some programs,
> I would like to upgrade to Woody. My question is (of course): how!? Is
> apt-get dist-upgrade safe enough? Someone told me about "aptitude", but
> (ag
> I'm currently using Debian's stable release but, due to some delays in
> the versions of some libraries that won't let me compile some programs,
> I would like to upgrade to Woody. My question is (of course): how!?
> Is apt-get dist-upgrade safe enough? Someone told me about "aptitude",
> but (a
David Smead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> BTW, today marks an anniversary for me - one week ago today I downloaded
> the two boot floppies and did the first net install.
Tchah! Any excuse for a party!
Glad it worked for you ;-)
Glyn
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begin David Smead quotation:
>
>
> http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ says . . .
> testing's gone mainline! Point apt at the new "testing" distribution
> (or the old "woody" distribution) on your favourite Debian mirror.
man sources.list
"point apt at the new distribution" doesn't mean "typ
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:32:35AM -0700, David Smead wrote:
>
>
> http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ says . . .
> testing's gone mainline! Point apt at the new "testing" distribution
> (or the old "woody" distribution) on your favourite Debian mirror.
>
> knuth:~# apt-get install testing
> R
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:32:35AM -0700, David Smead wrote:
>
>
> http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ says . . .
> testing's gone mainline! Point apt at the new "testing" distribution
> (or the old "woody" distribution) on your favourite Debian mirror.
>
> knuth:~# apt-get install testing
> R
David Smead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ says . . .
testing's gone mainline! Point apt at the new "testing" distribution
(or the old "woody" distribution) on your favourite Debian mirror.
knuth:~# apt-get install testing
Reading Package Lists... Done
Buildin
On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 09:32, David Smead wrote:
>
>
> http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ says . . .
> testing's gone mainline! Point apt at the new "testing" distribution
> (or the old "woody" distribution) on your favourite Debian mirror.
>
> knuth:~# apt-get install testing
> Reading Packag
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:32:35AM -0700, David Smead wrote:
| http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ says . . .
| testing's gone mainline! Point apt at the new "testing" distribution
| (or the old "woody" distribution) on your favourite Debian mirror.
|
| knuth:~# apt-get install testing
| Readi
change your /etc/apt/sources.list to something like
deb ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/debian/ testing main
deb ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/debian/ testing contrib
deb ftp://ftp.ee.debian.org/debian/ testing non-free
deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-non-US/ testing non-US/main
non-US/contrib no
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 10:51:08PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 12:10:35AM -0600, Rory O'Connor wrote:
> > Has anyone else had similar problems, and if so, what are the fixes?
>
> Has anyone? Certainly. What are the fixes? Installing the missing
> software.
... and arran
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 12:10:35AM -0600, Rory O'Connor wrote:
> I cannot start x ('startx' results in a 'command not found')
Ok, have you checked to see whether X is still installed? Configured? The
startx script is part of xbase-clients... is that package present?
> and apache ain't around ei
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 01:57:42PM +0900, Curt Howland wrote:
> So it looks as if most of my present problems are version based, the
> fact that Debian Potato[e] tends to be somewhat old in software
> versions.
>
> I'd like to upgrade to Woody, Kernel 2.4.x, XFree 4.x, etc.
>
> So I put "testing"
> Can someone suggest a command line "apt-get -install && update" or
> similar mystic arcanity? For all the wonder and joy that Dselect usually
> bestows, this seems to be just like last year at this time when I
> finally updated to Potato[e], it was a command line leap of faith.
I have woody, and
Curt Howland said:
> So it looks as if most of my present problems are version based, the
> fact that Debian Potato[e] tends to be somewhat old in software
> versions.
>
> I'd like to upgrade to Woody, Kernel 2.4.x, XFree 4.x, etc.
>
> So I put "testing" in place of "stable" in the /etc/apt/sourc
on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 08:26:22AM -1000, Amal Phadke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>I am running Potato on a Pentium II box and I would like to upgrade
> to Woody. I modified /etc/apt/sources.list file correctly to point to
> unstable distribution. After updating the database, I ran
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