Hi, What I meant was I wan to upgrade an existing system from Squeeze to Wheezy but replacing Gnome2 with XFCE, which seems a more natural upgrade path. I'd rather not have the grief of trying to remove a load of gnome3 libraries. I think I'll have to install XFCE then remove Gnome2 before the upgrade?
Thanks, James On 6 May 2013 07:32, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Du, 05 mai 13, 23:44:36, Carl Fink wrote: > > > > That's really odd. Reinstalling Debian from scratch only takes an hour at > > most, after all. (I use dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt to record > > which packages I had installed.) > > BTW: > > +<section id="dpkg-set-selections"> > + <title><command>dpkg --set-selections</command> changes</title> > + <para> > + The <command>dpkg --set-selections</command> command is now aware of > the > + architecture of packages it selects and can only set the state for > known > + packages. Therefore an up-to-date <filename>available</filename> > + database is needed for the command to be useful. > + </para> > + <para> > + To update the <filename>available</filename> database on an > + <systemitem role="package">apt</systemitem>-based system, run the > + <command>sync-available</command> command from the > + <systemitem role="package">dctrl-tools</systemitem> package. > + See the <ulink url="&url-wiki;Teams/Dpkg/FAQ">dpkg FAQ</ulink> > + for more information. > + </para> > +</section> > > (pending inclusion in the Release Notes) > > Kind regards, > Andrei > -- > http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser > Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic >
