On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Nate Bargmann wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:49:52PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > > > deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free > > > > > > enabled me to upgrade from 4.72 to 4.75. > > > > OK, I added this, ran > > apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade > > and it updated only netscape-base-4_1%3a4.75-2_i386.deb which is a tiny > > 37KB deb file. > > > > Did you actually get the full 4.75 installed? > > I had the same thing happen. I then ran dselect, did the update and select > menus and rather than selecting any packages, I noted that it had selected > NS to upgrade, went to the install option and the update worked fine, > along with the glibc update. > > Dunno why the apt-get cammands didn't work...
Ah, yes, now that you mention it, I did the same thing when I changed my source list to point to kde2. apt-get installed some base stuff, but the kde apps didn't update until a week or two later when I happened to run dselect for something else. ...RickM...