On 22/05/02, Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > >I've just done a woody install on an old PC and was having an unusually > >torrid time installing packages. Eventually I checked > >/etc/apt/sources.list and found that 'stable' was specified. ... > >I've modified sources.list and run apt-get update. But at the moment > >apt-get dist-upgrade does nothing. Should I clean out a cache or > >something?
> If all your sources.list entries contain testing instead of stable then > you should be fine. > I actually use both at the same time. I copy the stable entries and > rewrite them at the bottom of the file and s/stable/testing/ I have been doing what you suggest (although I don't have your dual stable/testing setting) and still have problems. Perhaps this is due to the now documented problem of 'stable' being used for the initial install rather than 'unstable' ? Thanks for your help, Tom. -- Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <www.campbell-lange.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]