Re: Upgrading to Potato on-line: any tips?

2000-07-24 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 10:09:04AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Any tips about how to do this? Anything to watch out for? Do I just do > apt-get dist-upgrade? How long does it take? you need the correct entries in /etc/apt/sources.list. then 'apt-get update' gets a list of the available packa

Re: Upgrading to potato

2000-05-28 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 01:16:37AM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Is there a URL which anyone can recommend to take me through the process > of upgrading to potato from slink? You could have a look at http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/potato/upgrade-i386/ The upgrading process is given in qu

Re: Upgrading to potato

2000-05-27 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 01:16:37AM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Is there a URL which anyone can recommend to take me through the > process of upgrading to potato from slink? You've got it: mailto:debian-user@lists.debian.org The basic procedure is: 1. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to poin

Re: Upgrading to "potato"

2000-05-16 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 16-May-2000 Brad wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 09:51:19PM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote: >> >> No, dselect will not try to install everything, but I suggest to use apt-get >> only and not bother with dselect's apt method. It will give you a bunch of >> dependency problems, and screw up your ex

Re: Upgrading to "potato"

2000-05-15 Thread Brad
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 09:51:19PM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote: > > No, dselect will not try to install everything, but I suggest to use apt-get > only and not bother with dselect's apt method. It will give you a bunch of > dependency problems, and screw up your existing configuration. Odd, since

RE: Upgrading to "potato"

2000-05-15 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 15-May-2000 David E. Young wrote: > Greetings. I am brand new to Debian, but a long-time Linux > user/administrator (mostly RedHat). > > I've installed Debian 2.1 from CD onto my SPARC IPX; the process went > flawlessly and the system is running fine. I would like to try an > upgrade to the upc

Re: Upgrading to Potato from Slink

2000-04-29 Thread Eric Hagglund
Thanks. --- John Bagdanoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 06:28:55AM -0700, Eric > Hagglund wrote: > > I would like to upgrade to the frozen release 2.2 > from > > the "official" 2.1 Where can I find the > information > > for doing this? I've looked on Debian's > documentatio

Re: Upgrading to Potato from Slink

2000-04-29 Thread John Bagdanoff
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 06:28:55AM -0700, Eric Hagglund wrote: > I would like to upgrade to the frozen release 2.2 from > the "official" 2.1 Where can I find the information > for doing this? I've looked on Debian's documentation > as well as in the Faq-O-Matic and found nothing. > Use apt-get, he

Re: Upgrading to potato

2000-02-25 Thread Tobias Zimpel
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 12:58:11PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > >I am going to upgrade from Debian slink 2.1 to potato. Can >anybody tell me if I am wrong about the procedure? Actually, >I am working with a spanish non-official Debian distribution >and it includes apt-get, Kde, gnome, etc

Re: upgrading to potato

1999-10-30 Thread Y. J. Chun
Y. J. Chun writes: > > Hi. > > I know this kind of question have been asked many times here but > could not find an answer to this problem on the list... > > to upgrade to potato from slink, i did following > > > apt-get update > > apt-get dist-upgrade > after modified sources.list to point un

Re: upgrading to potato problem

1999-10-20 Thread Jacob Schmude
I think we are looking at a package problem, a compiler bug in the package, or maybe both. Maybe its emacs, maybe its the new compiler that comes with potato. Either way, there's a package problem. On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 19/10/99 Jacob Schmude wrote: > > >I'm a new user t

Re: upgrading to potato problem

1999-10-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On 19/10/99 Jacob Schmude wrote: I'm a new user to debian too. The thing is that these compiler message results in the error so they are not warnings but errors. I've also been getting those exact messages from ldconfig but they didn't seem to be troublesome. I had to install emacs19 along with

Re: upgrading to potato problem

1999-10-20 Thread Jacob Schmude
I'm a new user to debian too. The thing is that these compiler message results in the error so they are not warnings but errors. I've also been getting those exact messages from ldconfig but they didn't seem to be troublesome. I had to install emacs19 along with 20 but as soon as my system was conf

Re: upgrading to potato problem

1999-10-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On 19/10/99 Jacob Schmude wrote: That didn't work but it got me more detail on the problem, the exact output of the command starting with the problem lines follows: Byte-compiling pcl-cvs-lucid.el... While compiling pcl-cvs-fontify in file /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/pcl-cvs/pcl -cvs-lucid.el

Re: upgrading to potato problem

1999-10-20 Thread Jacob Schmude
That didn't work but it got me more detail on the problem, the exact output of the command starting with the problem lines follows: Byte-compiling pcl-cvs-lucid.el... While compiling pcl-cvs-fontify in file /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/pcl-cvs/pcl -cvs-lucid.el: ** assignment to free variable mod

Re: upgrading to potato problem

1999-10-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On 19/10/99 Jacob Schmude wrote: I'm trying to upgrade slink to potato. However, when it comes time to install the new emacs packages (gnu emacs 20.3-11) I get the following errors: some errors were found while processing emacs20_20.3-11.deb while compiling the last portion of the code This is

Re: Upgrading to potato ...

1999-08-13 Thread Lex Chive
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 02:26:14PM +0100, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > Hi > > I have two machines. Machine A is connected to the internet and is > running slink and i want it to continue running slink. Machine b is not > connected to the internet but i would like it to run potato. > > My id

Re: Upgrading to Potato over dial-up connection

1999-05-15 Thread zephyr1
i love potato :)