Re: Upgrading from Woody to Sarge on PowerPC

Hi Kent- Thanks for your reply. Kent West wrote: > > You'll need to run "aptitude update" prior to running "aptitude -f > --with-recommends dist-upgrade". > The first step goes out and gets the list of available packages; the > next step goes and gets, not the list, but the actual packages. I a

Re: Upgrading from Woody to Sarge on PowerPC

Kent West wrote: >What I would do is return the "sources.list" file to its original form, >and run "aptitide update". If the system updates properly, go back into >sources.list and comment all but one line. Then change that one line so >that instead of "stable" it reads "sarge", > And you'll have

Re: Upgrading from Woody to Sarge on PowerPC

Kevin wrote: >OldWorld PowerPC (604e). I recently installed Woody on such a >machine using the 3.0r4 binary CDs for PowerPC and the resulting system >seems to work fine, but I didn't realize how old the software was in >Woody and would like to upgrade to Sarge > > >My /etc/apt/sources.list file

Upgrading from Woody to Sarge on PowerPC

Hi Folks- I'm new to Debian but have 10 years of experience with Linux from Slackware, Mandrake, Redhat, SuSE, and most lately Gentoo. I'm experimenting with Debian in general because of its universality and in particular because Gentoo doesn't seem to have an install capability for the OldWorld