Upgrading in RedHat and Debian?

[Geoff Shang]

Hi Terry:

Debian is cooler.  What you do is set up the apt package config file called
/etc/apt/sources.list so that it knows on what FTP sites the distribution
lives.  This should be the closest one to you wherever possible.  Then you
just do:

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

The first command updates the list of available packages and version
details, dependancies, etc.  The second upgrades your distribution, either
to a more up-to-date version of your current release or to the next one,
depending on what you've put in the sources.list file.  Note that this only
upgrades packages currently installed on your system.

You can also do neat things like:

apt-get install <packagename>

which will go out to the net and grab and install the requested
package.  Cool or what?  Of course, you can also use CD's as sources.

Geoff.



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