On 23.06.01 at 15:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Use dselect, and configure it to use apt as its "access" method...
Thanks Joost for that detailed mail. I've printed it out and I'm off to
familiarise myself further with dselect. I was quite surprised though
because a debian book I looked at online e
Marcus wrote:
> Is "apt-get upgrade" sufficient, and what does "apt-get dist-upgrade"
> do?
>From the apt-get man page:
dist-upgrade
dist-upgrade, in addition to performing the func
tion of upgrade, also intelligently handles chang
ing depende
On Saturday 23 June 2001 08:44, Joost Kooij wrote:
> Performing large scale upgrades can be attempted using only apt-get, is in
> most cases asking for trouble. This is not a shortcoming in apt-get, it
> just doesn't have all the needed user interfaces to dependends management
> that dselect does
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:00:18AM +0200, Marcus wrote:
> I have slink installed and want to upgrade to potato, but I'm
> relatively new to Debian (and Linux). I read two explanations on
> upgrading, but still have a few newbie type questions:
>
> Is "apt-get upgrade" sufficient, and what does "ap
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:00:18AM +0200, Marcus wrote:
>
> I have slink installed and want to upgrade to potato, but I'm
> relatively new to Debian (and Linux). I read two explanations on
> upgrading, but still have a few newbie type questions:
>
> Is "apt-get upgrade" sufficient, and what does
I have slink installed and want to upgrade to potato, but I'm
relatively new to Debian (and Linux). I read two explanations on
upgrading, but still have a few newbie type questions:
Is "apt-get upgrade" sufficient, and what does "apt-get dist-upgrade"
do?
I read that I should make sure all packag
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