On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 18:44:44 Kent West wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 December 2001 04:43 pm, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > I have a Debian Potato. I would like to use Balsa 1.2.3, which is
> > available as
> > part of Debian Woody. I have read in many places that an upgrade
> > from potato to
> > woody is easy, but I must be missing something.
> >
> > apt-get dist-upgrade <cr>
> >
> > is not enough. What am I missing?
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > PS Am I crazy to comtemplate this upgrade?
> 
> You need to change your /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to 
unstable 
> instead of stable (except the security line), then

What is "the security line"?

>       apt-get update
> then
>       apt-get dist-upgrade    or      apt-get install balsa to get 
just what's needed 
> instead of an entire dist upgrade.
> 
> Kent
> 
> 

Paul

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