XFree 4.1.0 and I128 (was How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?)

2002-03-02 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
"Greg C. Madden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Second: For obvious reasons, xserver-svga is upgraded, but > xserver-xfree86 is not installed. This is expected and easy to > deal with. Mh, my upgrade was a nightmare. After using dselect, apt-get and dpkg to excess I finally

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020227 05:20]: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:09:55PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > The only packages that gave me any grief were the KDE ones, as expected. > > The newer packages had the files rearranged between the different > > packages, so apt-get was unabl

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
Matthew Dalton wrote: >The only packages that gave me any grief were the KDE ones, as expected. >The newer packages had the files rearranged between the different >packages, so apt-get was unable to install packages because they were >attempting to overwrite files from other installed packages. I t

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-27 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:09:55PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > I also dist-upgraded my machine from Potato to Woody about two weeks > ago. However, my machine is a desktop system with heaps of apps > installed. My experiences were pretty awesome considering what I was up > against! [snip] > Th

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Matthew Dalton
dman wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:58:41AM -0500, Ed Lawson wrote: > | > | >On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: > | > > | >| > | >| Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' > | >| and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Gary L. Dolan
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:49:50PM -0900, Greg C. Madden wrote: > On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 07:58, Ed Lawson wrote: > > This was posted by Dwarf on the devel list. Slighty edited for brevity. > http://www.polaris.net/~dwarf/ > > > snip > 2. Before doing the upgrade, but after an 'apt-get update', fi

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 07:58, Ed Lawson wrote: > > >On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: > > > >| > >| Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' > >| and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running > >| Woody. :) > > > Hmm

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Bill Moseley
At 12:32 PM 02/26/02 -0500, dman wrote: >| Hmmm. Isn't it better to first change the sources list, then upgrade >| Perl, then upgrade apt, dpkg, etc, and then do a dist-upgrade? Seems I >| have read that a blanket dist-upgrade from stable to testing is not as >| seamless as you suggest, but it

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Chris Jenks
At 11:58 AM 2/26/02, Ed Lawson wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: | | Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' | and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running | Woody. :) Hmmm. Isn't it better to first chang

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:58:41AM -0500, Ed Lawson wrote: | | >On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: | > | >| | >| Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' | >| and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running | >| Woody.

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Ed Lawson
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: | | Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' | and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running | Woody. :) Hmmm. Isn't it better to first change the sources list, then upgrade Pe

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: | On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 08:44, Liam Black wrote: | > I'm currently running potato 2.2.19, and looking to upgrade to Woody. Is | > there a simplistic way to do this with apt / dpkg? I'm a newbie, and have | > been spending my time learnin

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread David Bell
Absolutely. :) Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running Woody. :) On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 08:44, Liam Black wrote: > I'm currently running potato 2.2.19, and looking to upgrade to Woody. Is > there

How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Liam Black
I'm currently running potato 2.2.19, and looking to upgrade to Woody. Is there a simplistic way to do this with apt / dpkg? I'm a newbie, and have been spending my time learning about the desktop much moreso than tackling the meat of the system... but that's what I'm attempting to do, now. So if a

Re: how to upgrade from potato to woody

2000-10-23 Thread Iain Georgeson
Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Iain Georgeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I notice I don't have potato-proposed-updates in my sources.list. What > > can I expect to find in it? > lynx http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/potato-proposed-updates > There are (important) updates for

Re: how to upgrade from potato to woody

2000-10-23 Thread romeu
I'm upgrading from potato to woody. I already did the following steps: 1) Downloaded Woody packages (just like libstdc++2.10, kde2...), and installed it to run under potato. 2) Downloaded Woody Kernel-Source test5, and built bzImage, so I use loadlin do boot it with a dos menu. In the dos menu, I

Re: how to upgrade from potato to woody

2000-10-21 Thread Moritz Schulte
Iain Georgeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I notice I don't have potato-proposed-updates in my sources.list. What > can I expect to find in it? lynx http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/potato-proposed-updates There are (important) updates for the already released version of Potato.

Re: how to upgrade from potato to woody

2000-10-21 Thread Iain Georgeson
Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Oh, you don't have the security and proposed updates enabled, the > entrys (for potato) are: > > deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib > deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian dists/potato-proposed-updates/ I notice I don't have

RE: how to upgrade from potato to woody

2000-10-21 Thread Rino Mardo
a word of caution. if one can't even find out how to upgrade from potato to woody then one should not be upgrading at all. unstable is exactly what it says. just my 2cents. > -Original Message- > From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, October 21

Re: how to upgrade from potato to woody

2000-10-21 Thread Colin Watson
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >can someone please tell me how to use apt-get to change my potato to a >woody? if it makes a difference, my sources.list file is: [...] >deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib >deb-src ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ potato m

Re: how to upgrade from potato to woody

2000-10-20 Thread Moritz Schulte
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i'd really like to use xfree86 4.0; i might as well just upgrade the whole > system to woody. AFAIK, xfree86 isn't already official part of woody, but there are the phase2 debs... > can someone please tell me how to use apt-get to change my potato

how to upgrade from potato to woody

2000-10-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i'd really like to use xfree86 4.0; i might as well just upgrade the whole system to woody. can someone please tell me how to use apt-get to change my potato to a woody? if it makes a difference, my sources.list file is: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Bin