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Re: upgrading from slink to potato



Hello Jim.

First, the debian-mentors list is for package maintainers and
wanna-be-package maintainers. General questions such as this are normally
aimed at debian-user.

Second, you are probably needing sources.lists lines more like these:
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

have fun :)

On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 10:30:46PM -0500, Jim Ruby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to upgrade to the latest linux kernel version 2.2.12.  Right
> now I am running slink 2.1.  I was told I needed to upgrade to potato to
> make the best use with the least amount of problems with the best
> compatability.
> 
> Here is what I have in my /etc/apt/sources.list file
> 
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato non-US
> 
> Next I did an apt-get update and the non-us stuff was not found.  I've read
> the 'info sources.list' page and it looks right to me.
> The potato main, contrib and non-free stuff went ok.
> 
> I'm not sure of the best safest way to complete the upgrade from slink to
> potato.
> 
> I tried an apt-get upgrade and I seen that there was a bunch of things that
> were going to be held back.  Not sure why, but I see there is a flag I can
> use --ignore-holds that will get around this and upgrade everything.
> 
> What are the differences between upgrade, dselect-upgrade and dist-upgrade
> 
> Thanks for helping a newbie out.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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