[Gllug] unstable

Juergen Schinker ba1020 at homie.homelinux.net
Tue Jan 23 17:23:15 UTC 2007


>
>   APT::Cache-Limit "100000000";
>
> You'll find that you'll be installing the "iceweasel" package to get the
> latest version (since "firefox" has been renamed to avoid trademark issues
> with Mozilla -- There is a firefox package still, but it's just a stub
> that
> depends on iceweasel to ease upgrades.  I only mention it because you
> might
> be confused with the switch otherwise)
>
> Don't go to unstable[1] -- testing is soon to be released, and has the
> same
> versions in it anyway at present:
>
>   phil at palm:~$ apt-show-versions -a -p iceweasel
>   iceweasel       2.0.0.1+dfsg-2  install ok installed
>   iceweasel       2.0.0.1+dfsg-2  testing
>   iceweasel       2.0.0.1+dfsg-2  testing
>   iceweasel       2.0.0.1+dfsg-2  unstable
>   iceweasel/testing uptodate 2.0.0.1+dfsg-2
>
> You should be able to do a partial upgrade, to get that, and then when
> etch
> is released as stable, check the release notes and do a dist-upgrade,
> after
> first setting your sources back to be using stable.
>
> Alternatively, a dist-upgrade to testing should also work, and will make
> the eventual upgrade to the released etch quicker -- it's really up to
> you,
> depending on how much time you have now, and whether you're happy to be
> the
> one to discover and report upgrade bugs :-)
>
i#m just playing with debian as xen-guest and updating to iceweasel
will remove vncserver  wtf why?
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