On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 08:04:20PM -0500, Jay W. Anderson wrote: > o What is the proper way to do a dist-upgrade? <edit /etc/apt/sources.list> apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade > o How much of potato needs to be installed, i.e. when do I break > out of the install & do a dist-upgrade? I usually go through the installation process until it runs dselect, then quit from dselect immediately without installing anything there and let it finish normally. Then I log in as root, edit sources.list, apt-get update, and restart dselect to find all the packages I want to install. > o From rtfm the info on debian.org it looks like I need to do a > update, then dist-upgrade, then ??? That's it, really. > o Do I need to edit the apt sources list to say woody instead of > stable or does the dist upgrade understand that is what I want to do? Yes, you have to edit sources.list. dist-upgrade basically means "make everything current, even if you have to add some new packages or remove old ones in the process"; sources.list determines what apt thinks is current. As a side note, I prefer to use distro status (testing/stable) instead of name (woody/potato) in sources.list. YMMV, of course. -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.1: GCS d? s+: a- C++ UL++$ P++>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI++++ D G e* h+ r y+