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Re: Debian Sarge 3.1



On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 01:35:19AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 04:23:32PM +0200, Werner Mahr wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 13:10 schrieb Chris Bannister:
> > 
> > > Are these steps correct?
> > >
> > > 1. apt-get update
> > 
> > Not necessary.
> > 
> > > 2. If necessary apt-get upgrade
> > 
> > Not necessary.
> > 
> > > 3. change sources.list to point to Sarge
> > 
> > OK
> > 
> > > 4. apt-get update
> > 
> > OK
> > 
> > > 5. apt-get upgrade
> > 
> > Not necessary.
> 
> Oh, OK, no harm though ;-)
> 
> > > 6. perform step 5 as necessary
> > 
> > Not necessary.
> > 
> > > 7. apt-get dist-upgrade
> > 
> > OK, but I would suggest you to do an apt-get install apt before that.
> 
> Thanks! Great advice.
> 

According to the release notes, the only "supported" way to upgrade is
with aptitude.  Unfortunately, some the dependencies (particularly with
KDE) have become so complext that Woody's version of apt simply craps
out in some cases.

-Roberto
-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr

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