Quoting der.hans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Uh, what Rick said :)
Maybe, but I just realised that I blew the contents of
/etc/apt/sources.list. I wrote:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates
That would be fine if you wanted to continue tracking the Debian
"stable" branch, which is currently 2.1 ("slink"). And in general,
the package versions in slink are fairly current. But I had _intended_
to specify how to quickly and easily upgrade to potato, the current
"unstable" branch. To do that, you'd edit sources.list as follows:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US
deb http://security.debian.org/ unstable updates
(without the indents). In other words, just change "stable" to
"unstable", and make sure you have the line to fetch early security
fixes. Save. Connect to the Internet. Type:
script
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
_That_ upgrades you to potato. (The "script" utility saves a record
of the process to text file "typescript".)
Sorry about that.
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