Re: upgrade from potato to woody

2003-08-14 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:11:14AM -0500, Shashank Bhide wrote: > > > How do I upgrade from Potato to woody? > > What do I need to change in the sources.list file? The official part of my sources.list file looks like this: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contr

upgrade from potato to woody

2003-08-10 Thread Shashank Bhide
How do I upgrade from Potato to woody? What do I need to change in the sources.list file? My sources.list file looks something like this: # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work #deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb-src http://non

Re: upgrade from potato to woody

2003-08-07 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Shashank! On Wednesday 06 August 2003 17:40, Shashank Bhide wrote: > How do I upgrade from Potato to woody? > > What do I need to change in the sources.list file? See http://www.de.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html for rather detailed hints on

Re: dist-upgrade (from potato to woody) snag

2002-11-24 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:32:03PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > will writes: > > seeing lots of this during an "apt-get dist-upgrade" from potato > > to woddy today: > > > > > > > > Setting up libxslt1 (1.0.16-0.1) ... > > ldconfig: /usr/oracle/lib/libvbj30ssl.so is not a shared

Re: dist-upgrade (from potato to woody) snag

2002-11-24 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:14:37PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > seeing lots of this during an "apt-get dist-upgrade" from potato > to woddy today: > > > > Setting up libxslt1 (1.0.16-0.1) ... > ldconfig: /usr/oracle/lib/libvbj30ssl.so is not a shared object > file (Type:

Re: dist-upgrade (from potato to woody) snag

2002-11-24 Thread Elizabeth Barham
will writes: > seeing lots of this during an "apt-get dist-upgrade" from potato > to woddy today: > > > > Setting up libxslt1 (1.0.16-0.1) ... > ldconfig: /usr/oracle/lib/libvbj30ssl.so is not a shared object > file (Type: 768). > > > Setting up libreadline4 (4.2

dist-upgrade (from potato to woody) snag

2002-11-24 Thread will trillich
seeing lots of this during an "apt-get dist-upgrade" from potato to woddy today: Setting up libxslt1 (1.0.16-0.1) ... ldconfig: /usr/oracle/lib/libvbj30ssl.so is not a shared object file (Type: 768). Setting up libreadline4 (4.2a-5) ... ldconfig:

Re: Upgrade from potato to woody?

2002-11-20 Thread nate
Felipe Martínez Hermo said: > If that's enough why debian recommends upgrading using dselect? > > I tried to upgrade my system using dselect+apt and I had to reinstall the > whole system to get my system running again. not sure, I have to admit I don't think i've ever read any of the debian docu

Re: Upgrade from potato to woody?

2002-11-18 Thread tjm3
thanks. I'm trying it right now. nate wrote: tjm3 said: Hello. I'm about to upgrade my system from potato to woody and was wondering what is the latest recommendation for the upgrade sequence. I know this has been posted before, but I haven't come across one lately. Just looking to get it r

Re: Upgrade from potato to woody?

2002-11-18 Thread nate
tjm3 said: > Hello. I'm about to upgrade my system from potato to woody > and was wondering what is the latest recommendation for the > upgrade sequence. I know this has been posted before, but > I haven't come across one lately. Just looking to get it > right the first time. I think it was to

Upgrade from potato to woody?

2002-11-18 Thread tjm3
Hello. I'm about to upgrade my system from potato to woody and was wondering what is the latest recommendation for the upgrade sequence. I know this has been posted before, but I haven't come across one lately. Just looking to get it right the first time. I think it was to upgrade apt and dpkg

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: dist-upgrade from potato to woody

2001-07-22 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:17:27PM +0100, Graham Ward wrote: | I just tried to upgrade my system from potato to woody. I believe | these are the correct steps: | | (1) replace "potato" with "woody" everywhere in /etc/apt/sources.list | (2) apt-get update | (3) apt-get dist-upgrade. These

Re: dist-upgrade from potato to woody

2001-07-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:17:27PM +0100, Graham Ward wrote: > I just tried to upgrade my system from potato to woody. I believe > these are the correct steps: > > (1) replace "potato" with "woody" everywhere in /etc/apt/sources.list > > (2) apt-get update > > (3) apt-get dist-upgrade. >

dist-upgrade from potato to woody

2001-07-21 Thread Graham Ward
Hi all, I just tried to upgrade my system from potato to woody. I believe these are the correct steps: (1) replace "potato" with "woody" everywhere in /etc/apt/sources.list (2) apt-get update (3) apt-get dist-upgrade. When I do step (3), I see (among other things) the message W

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

Re: Upgrade from potato to woody?

2000-08-23 Thread Gary Hennigan
montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Raghavendra, > > Great idea. Yes, I just did it, as root, using the following commands: > > # cd /var/cache/apt > # mkdir sim-logs > # apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade | cat > sim-logs/apt-sim.txt This is a bit more complicated than it needs to be. Simply:

Re: Upgrade from potato to woody?

2000-08-23 Thread montefin
Raghavendra, Great idea. Yes, I just did it, as root, using the following commands: # cd /var/cache/apt # mkdir sim-logs # apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade | cat > sim-logs/apt-sim.txt then # less sim-logs/apt-sim.txt to read it. Thanks, montefin Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > > montefin wrote:

Re: Upgrade from potato to woody?

2000-08-23 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
montefin wrote: > I avoided some problems by doing: > apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade > Can U please elaborate on this ? Can U pipe this to get some sort of a log ? Tnx for this nifty point..real good !! -- ragOO, VU2RGU Keeping the Air-Waves FREE.Amateur Radio Keeping the W W W FREE

Re: Upgrade from potato to woody?

2000-08-22 Thread montefin
Rick, Er...one small departure. After upgrading from potato to woody, I found I avoided some problems by doing: apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade Then identifying the packages I really wanted and doing: apt-get upgrade then apt-get install . As opposed to doing: apt-get dist-upgrade. But then

Re: Upgrade from potato to woody?

2000-08-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
1. Edit sources.list pointing to woody|unstable instead of potato|stable. 2. apt-get update 3. apt-get dist-upgrade On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:19:55PM -0500, Daniel E. Baumann wrote: > O.K. Here is a question that I am sure has been asked before, but I could not > find a concise enough answer. If

Re: Upgrade from potato to woody?

2000-08-22 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Daniel E. Baumann wrote: > O.K. Here is a question that I am sure has been asked before, but I could not > find a concise enough answer. If I was to upgrade to woody from potato (or > to do a general distribution ugrade in Debian from whatever to whatever) what > are the steps

Upgrade from potato to woody?

2000-08-22 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
O.K. Here is a question that I am sure has been asked before, but I could not find a concise enough answer. If I was to upgrade to woody from potato (or to do a general distribution ugrade in Debian from whatever to whatever) what are the steps that I would take, would it be: 1) change sources.li