On Monday 4 October 1999, at 20 h 44, the keyboard of =?iso-8859-1?Q?Staffan_H=E4m=E4l=E4?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm just curious about how other people succeed in installing the > potato release. As explained, almost nobody "installed" potato. They installed slink (may be only the base system) and upgraded. > trying that. First, I installed it at home, and dselect freaked > out and started complaining over files that didn't exist. The "unstable" (it is called unstable for a reason) archive is not always consistent (rsh/netbase, lyx/libforms, etc). > was due to the fact that ftp downloads the softlinks that point > to slink packages instead of the actual files. I always use apt, so I will no longer comment on dselect. > Of course, I know that it's an unstable release, but is it really > this hard to install, Install slink, the upgrade with apt. Simple as that. > If I could just get it installed properly (I run it at home, > but had to do a lot of manual tuning, and adding all packages > I wanted using dpkg --force* NO, NO, NO, this is not redhat.com! Do this on a Debian only if you really know what you are doing or you may destroy your system.