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Re: 2.2 kernels on slink



On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 01:01:40AM +0200, Gaal Yahas wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:16:03AM +0200, Omer wrote:
> > right. but do not use dselect, use apt instead.
> 
> Huh? I thought dselect was calling apt for me. Wasn't it?

<bias> It does, but dselect is an ugly monstrosity. I find apt-get's
CLI much easier to use than dselect's ncurses' one. </bias>

If you want to upgrade your system, "apt-get dist-upgrafe" will take
care of everything for you. Basically, if you know what you want to
do, using apt-get is straight to the point. But I'd say using a front
end such as gnome-apt, dselect or its successor console-apt (which is
AKA deity, if I'm not mistaken?) is better when you want to go over
the packages and decide which you want to install, which to deinstall
and so forth.

> > > Any special recommendations? Personal success stories? Warnings?
> > > Pointers to such information by other people?
> > 
> > First, install recent version of apt. then configure it to install from
> > net. Do not bother with manual download ofg packages, it will hurt to do (I
> > tried once, just belive me and _do not_) Then:

Just edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change slink to potato. Note that
the non-US archive structure has split into main, contrib and non-free
sections; so instead of:

deb http://non-us.debian.org slink non-US

(or whatever it used to be...) you need:

deb http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US main contrib non-free

Otherwise you wouldn't be able to get the non-US archive, which is
mostly cryptography and various programs which are legally problematic
in the US.

<OFFTOPIC> Since I'm already in source.list schwung, Debian users who
want to install the stable KDE debs the way the deity intended
(couldn't resist the pun...) can do that by adding:

deb ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/potato i386/

or slink, depending. </OFFTOPIC>

Once you do that, you can either "apt-get dist-upgrade" which will
upgrade your entire system non-discriminately, or just "apt-get
install package" for whatever packages you need, and apt-get will make
sure their dependencies are satisfied. Which may be a lot of packages
because of the libc upgrade.

> -- 
> believing is seeing
> gaal@forum2.org
> http://www.forum2.org/gaal/

	- Adi Stav

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