Debian...........Was: Re: [Hudlug] Proposed Xmas Curry
Chris Lindley
hudlug at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sat Dec 14 13:37:01 2002
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 13:24, Tim Bray wrote:
> Chris Lindley wrote:
> > I've just had to recently reinstall Debian due to a a flawed gentoo
> > install (ahem!!).. I installed a base system from Woody discs (i.e.
> > without X and major apps). Immediately upgraded to Sarge, then straight
> > to Sid. (it's not reccommended to go straight from stable to unstable,
> > too many different packages, and you can reach the deep levels of the
> > dependency hell if you;re unlucky!)
> >
>
> The other alternative is to add the unstable apt sources in during the
> install, and then you jump straight into unstable. I haven't done this
> myself, but see no reason why it shouldn't work.
I suppose using a net-install you could add the sources.list lines then,
and the whole system should be Sid!
Cheers
Chris
> >
> > BTW to go between stable and unstable etc.. you must use apt-get
> > dist-upgrade instead. apt-get upgrade will not install new packages
> > that are needed, due to dependencies, but will only upgrade packages.
>
> yes.
>
>
> Tim
>
>
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