Beautiful! I got some errors doing apt-get dist-upgrade but running dselect (twice) it looks like everything is working. I have newfound respect for dselect and love Debian even more! Thanks guys/girls, you've been so helpful!
Now it's time to get X working... --- Antonio Rodr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:14:48 -0400 > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:02:12AM -0700, Paul > Burkett wrote: > > > Basically, I have Debian Woody (3.0) CDs and > since I > > > didn't want to burn a new CD for unstable, I > went > > > ahead and installed it. Now what I want to know > is, > > > how do I upgrade to unstable? Is it a matter of > adding > > > APT::Default-Release "testing"; to > /etc/apt.conf, and > > > adding unstable to the sources.list? Or will I > have to > > > add a pin priority? One of the Debian Manuals > > > recommends > > > using dselect instead of APT to upgrade to new > > > releases, is this a better way of doing it? Or > should > > > I just do an apt-get dist-upgrade? Any help > would be > > > much > > > appreciated. Thanks! > > > > > > Basically just edit /etc/apt/sources.list and > replace all occurences > > of the word stable with unstable. > > > > Then do apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. > > > > That's what I usually do. I feel that this is the > best/easiest way to > > get unstable onto my computer. > > > > Bijan > > I would also add: Try not to install too many > packages from stable, > since many could lead you to broken dependencies, > due to absences or so > in the unstable branch. Just have a basic one > running, and then, if you > feel lazy, once you have converted to sid, run > tasksel. Another thing is > that some times aptitude will show broken > dependencies, go then with > dselect, and with apt-get with all its different > options. I have noticed > that by cycling through them, you can fix most (if > not all) the > dependenciy problems. Good luck. ===== - Paul Burkett __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
