Re: [DNG] cleaning before upgrade

2017-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 14 May 2017 12:45:57 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: > Following is an excerpt from maintenance notes the Silicon Valley > Linux User Group keeps concerning package operations for the Ubuntu > Server virthost running www.svlug.org at Linode. (Ubuntu Server was > _very much_ not my choice, but ra

Re: [DNG] cleaning before upgrade

2017-05-14 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Didier Kryn (k...@in2p3.fr): > Some review of installed packages is usefull from time to time, > ideally just after install, but before upgrade is also a good > opportunity. In synaptic, you can easily review the packages which > are "manually installed" and try to uninstall the ones y

Re: [DNG] cleaning before upgrade

2017-05-14 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 14/05/2017 à 14:11, Hendrik Boom a écrit : On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 08:08:51AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: apt-get dist-upgrade is what's necessary to change release - as the name means -, eg Wheezy to Jessie or Jessie to Ascii. This is why it should rarely be used, and only after carefully

[DNG] cleaning before upgrade

2017-05-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 08:08:51AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > > apt-get dist-upgrade is what's necessary to change release - as the name > means -, eg Wheezy to Jessie or Jessie to Ascii. This is why it should > rarely be used, and only after carefully editing sources.list. It's a jump > into