Re: [TCLUG:16986] upgrading Debian

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

close, but not quite..
once you update sources.list, you need to update your local avaliability
database.. by running 'apt-get update'
then, you can upgrade all packages with 'apt-get dist-upgrade'
once you have the system installed, you never have to use dselect
again.. if you had installed with the latest potato disks, you could have
bypased dselect entirely.. (has an all apt based install :)

also make a file called /etc/apt/apt.conf and include this:
APT {
  Get {
   Show-Upgraded "true";
  }
}
it will output a list of things to upgrade

once dist-upgraded, you will probably only have to do an 'apt-get upgrade'
any time you need to upgrade..

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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On Mon, 1 May 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> 
> OK, so I got Debian installed. It's not really very hard. I must say,
> however, that dselect has got to be one of the ugliest programs I've seen
> lately. Powerful? Yes. Cool? Yes. Intuitive? Yeah right.
> 
> Now that I've got a working Debian system, I'd like to upgrade to the latest
> unstable (woody) binaries. Am I correct in assuming that I can simply change
> /etc/apt/sources.list to refer to 'unstable' instead of 'stable'? Presumably
> I would then re-run dselect to download and install all of the packages.
> Correct?
> 
> I would encourage other to give Debian a try. The package management is
> truly impressive. Obtuse as it is, dselect is an amazing tool.
> 
> -Tim
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