Upgrading debian 2.2

[Luke Davis]

Coming in late: did you do an apt-get update?

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Jared Stofflett wrote:

> Same  thing says nothing was upgraded.
>
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> On Behalf Of Cheryl Homiak
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 10:58 PM
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> Subject: Re: Upgrading debian 2.2
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> Even safer:
> apt-get -f -u dist-upgrade
>
> -f fix-broken
> -u show-upgraded This lists everything that's going to be upgraded.
> It's possible you may want, after changing your /etc/apt/sources.list, to do
> apt-get install apt first; once or twice I've known things to get stuck
> because apt wasn't upgraded and didn't handle the packages correctly; that
> may not be a problem but it probably won't hurt; probably when you do this
> other packages will get upgraded along with apt.
> Also, if you do the upgrade and there are still a significant number of
> packages not upgraded, don't panic; just run the upgrade again. It may be
> that some packages weren't to be upgraded until the basic upgrade was done;
> I don't know for sure, but this has happened to me.
> Hope this helps and isn't confusing.
>
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>
> --
> Cheryl
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
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