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