I am running a currently upgraded potato. I changed my sources.list, and ran apt-get update.
My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free When I run apt-get -s dist-upgrade I get the following: # apt-get -s dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: bind diald dialdcost dvidvi ftpd leafnode lftp libgnome-dev libgnorba-dev libgtkxmhtml-dev libmng-dev liborbit-dev libqt2.2-dev linuxconf linuxconf-x netbase orbit perl-5.004 perl-5.004-base ppp pppconfig rsh-server rstartd smbfs task-dialup task-dns-server task-samba task-tex telnetd tetex-bin tetex-extra tetex-lib wvdial The following NEW packages will be installed: cpp-2.95 cvs g++-2.95 gcc-2.95 gettext glibc-doc gobjc-2.95 ifupdown libbz2-1.0 libhtml-tagset-perl libkpathsea3 libperl5.6 libsasl7 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libtool manpages-dev net-tools netkit-inetd netkit-ping perl perl-5.6 perl-modules strace wenglish The following packages have been kept back base-config gnuplot gv koules libwine nmh plotutils rxvt t1lib1 task-x-window-system-core 151 packages upgraded, 24 newly installed, 33 to remove and 10 not upgraded. And apt-get dist-upgrade looks like this: # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: bind diald dialdcost dvidvi ftpd leafnode lftp libgnome-dev libgnorba-dev libgtkxmhtml-dev libmng-dev liborbit-dev libqt2.2-dev linuxconf linuxconf-x netbase orbit perl-5.004 perl-5.004-base ppp pppconfig rsh-server rstartd smbfs task-dialup task-dns-server task-samba task-tex telnetd tetex-bin tetex-extra tetex-lib wvdial The following NEW packages will be installed: cpp-2.95 cvs g++-2.95 gcc-2.95 gettext glibc-doc gobjc-2.95 ifupdown libbz2-1.0 libhtml-tagset-perl libkpathsea3 libperl5.6 libsasl7 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libtool manpages-dev net-tools netkit-inetd netkit-ping perl perl-5.6 perl-modules strace wenglish The following packages have been kept back base-config gnuplot gv koules libwine nmh plotutils rxvt t1lib1 task-x-window-system-core 151 packages upgraded, 24 newly installed, 33 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Need to get 52.0MB/52.7MB of archives. After unpacking 58.7MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> There seems to be a lot of needed packages being removed from my system and not being put back through the upgrade. It says it is going to dump 58.7 megs worth of stuff. I mean, ppp, samba, the x-window core system... these are all currently being used by me now. I can't have them go away. What is this going to do to my system? I'm not worried about the gnome stuff because I use KDE 2.1, but the rest of the stuff I kinda rely on. Now, maybe that won't be a big deal, as long as when ppp gets removed it doesn't drop my internet connection. Then I can just put the packages back with apt-get install xxx. But my 28.8 kbps connection will make it slow. How do I get the system upgraded to testing (woody) without totally screwing it up, as the above seems to indicate. Thanks for any help you can provide. -- Stewart Jenkins...