Upgrading debian 2.2

[Jared Stofflett]

Thank god I don't have school this week. I remade my sources.list file just
to be safe. I'm using dselect right now and am getting a lot more stuff
about updates then I did with apt-get for some reason so going to give this
a try. 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Cheryl Homiak
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 1:28 AM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: RE: Upgrading debian 2.2

Well, first of all, I don't think you need both the mirror urls and the
beginning ones. I think your first few lines look a lot like mine except
mine are http and yours are ftp; I don't think that probably matters.
Secondly, you don't need duplicate lines.
Thirdly, I usually put my security url at the top.
It would have seemed to me that if you were set for stable you would have
automatically upgraded, but somebody can correct me.
Also if you do need to upgrade, I looked at the release notes, which the
installation manual at www.debian.org recommends you do if upgrading;
there's a link to release notes.
The release notes didn't recommend uisng apt-get, but I don't know what else
you'd use unless you have cds of woody. In my opinion, anyway, dselect is to
be avoided, but other people might cope with it better than i do.
If you are going to upgrade with apt-get, it recommends that you first run
(after apt-get update of course)

apt-get install dpkg apt debconf

The release notes also go into preparations for upgrading and possible
problems, so look at it if you haven't.
I still don't understand why you wouldn't have been upgraded to the newest
release since you have stable in your apt-get. But i may be missing
something. There are a lot of people on here who have more experience than
I, but hope this helps.


--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."



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