Simon Bowden wrote:
Michael,
Do a dist-upgrade, not an upgrade. An upgrade doesn't try hard enough -
it won't remove packages. dist-upgrade does, thus can resolve conflicts.
Of course, if you're running a production system, you'd want to watch
closely what gets upgraded and removed. I always run "apt-get -V
dist-upgrade"...
There is no -V but I presume you mean --no-act.
I did that i.e. apt-get --no-act dist-upgrade
and it listed 120 packages that will be upgraded !
Perl is amoung those to be upgraded.
so I presume that I'll go with the above. It's a bit nerve racking :-)
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Michael Lake wrote:
Steve Kowalik wrote:
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:04:31 +1000, Michael Lake uttered
I have a server running Debian stable where perl is v5.6.1. I need
5.8 for installing a library application. I have never done/used
mixed systems before or done apt pinning. Am I going to do this right?
The following procedure was worked out by reading a few googled web
sites about apt pinning.
However I don't want to break perl on this machine.
You are aware that Debian sarge was released yesterday and the version
of Perl in it is 5.8.4?
Yep. Yet this morning when I do an apt-get upgrade it still says that
many packages are being held back and perl is amoung that list.
I would have thought that given that sarge is released then surely it
would upgrade to perl 5.8 but apparently not. The server is an Intel
too and not some wierd architecture :-)
Mike
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