[Sussex] Upgrading Debian (was Mozilla & glibc)

[Gavin Stevens]

Hi Steve,

Many thanks for your continued help.

I take the point about dselect.

Here is my etc/apt/sources.list: Looking at it again, there seem to be more 
sites than I wanted. Grateful for your thoughts.

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r4 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3 
(20011106)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r4 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 
(20011106)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r4 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 
(20011106)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non- 
free
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non- 
free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib 
non-free

Thanks,

Gavin.


On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 02:47:38 -0400, Steve Dobson <SDobson at manh.com> wrote:

> Hi Gavin
>
> On 14 Aug 2003 Gavin Stevens
>> OK, so I've now got dselect pointing at the relevant sites to upgrade
>> & keep up to date. It got the updated list of packages earlier, so all
>> seems to be working.
>
> First point. Stop using "deselect" and start using the "apt-get" from
> the command line.  The way deselect handles package updates is broken;
> it works but there are better ways of doing stuff with less work that
> "apt-get" gets right.
>
> If you want a "pretty" front end then "apt-get install aptitude".
>
>> Am I right in thinking that when I want to do the upgrade, it will
>> replace anything already installed, but won't store or download the
>> whole distribution onto my HD? This might sound like a rather thick
>> question, but I ask it anyway because it might not be too bad
>> upgrading what I have, as opposed to downloading everything. When I
>> ran Windows, I didn't shy away from downloading Star Office 5.2 all
>> in one go (80+ MB).
>
> There are two things here.
>
> An "upgrade" is to install later versions of packages from the major
> release your running.
>
> An "dist-upgrade" will jump to the new major release.
>
> Please post your /etc/apt/sources.list 'cos I've flying blind at the 
> momeent.  I'll advise better once I've seen it.