[Sussex] Woody, here I come :-)

[Gavin Stevens]

Many thanks, Steve & Thomas, for your wise counsel. I will heed the warning 
& use apt-get.

I shall be using the CDs for upgrading, mainly because it will be a lot 
quicker than doing it over the web on a 56K connection, but also because 
it's a delight to find that the CDs are actually fine, months after I had 
given them up as dud. However, I will make a note of the URLs for upgrade 
as I'm sure they will be useful - especially security updates.

Thanks again,

Gavin.

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:11:12 +0000, Steve Dobson <steve at dobson.org> wrote:

> Gavin
>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:46:34PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
>> Gavin Stevens <starshine at gavmusic.uklinux.net> wrote: > I would be most 
>> grateful for any of the following:
>> > > 1: General tips on upgrading (is apt-get or dselect better? for
>> > example).
>>
>> dselect is evil -- do not go there.
>
> Listen to Thomas - dselect is the spawn of the Devil - do not use it.
> Use the power that is "apt-get".
>
>> Apt-get is the man to use. There is
>> also something called "tasksel" that might interest you -- but I would
>> advise against that -- it installs KDE *and* GNOME.
>
> "tasksel" is only really useful if you want to install a set of packages
> that are normally related to a task - like programming.
>
> If you have a broadband link, or time (it will work over a 56K modem - I
> know that's how I used it for years, letting it run over night) apt will
> upgrade from potote to woody (or even sarge) without having to use the
> CD.
>
> Edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list so that it looks like this:
>
> ---------------------- cut here --------------------------
> deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian <version> main contrib non-free
> deb deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US <version> non-US/main
> deb deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US <version> non-US/contrib
> deb deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US <version> non-US/non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
> ---------------------- cut here --------------------------
>
> Where <version> is either "stable" for the latest stable release (woody)
> "testing" for the current testing version (sarge)
> or you can use the version name (i.e. "woody").
>
> Then (as root) do a:
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get dist-upgrade And the system (after pulling the required 
> packages) will be updated for you.`
>
> If you do want to use the woody CDs then only add the
> "deb http://security..." line and then use apt-cdrom to add each of the
> CDs to the apt packages and then run the apt commands above.
>
> Steve D
>
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