On (02/06/03 14:03), Rogério Brito wrote: > On Jun 02 2003, Clive Menzies wrote: > > I'm actually running woody but apt-get install openoffice.org did > > the trick and I now have OOo installed and working ;-). Someday I > > ought to upgrade to testing but because it's been such a long haul > > to get thus far, I'm reluctant to tamper with it in case I break it. > > But maybe when feeling brave.... > > One doesn't need to be that brave to use testing. I'm using it > for months now and things *rarely* break. In fact, it would > help if the main focus of Debian users switched to testing > instead of sid, for quality assurance purposes. > > OTOH, I'm not that brave to use sid... And now that many > packages from sid are migrating to testing, I don't feel that > I need to use sid, unless I'm actually serving as guinea pig > for some package.
Hi Rogerio I use dselect to keep my system up to date but when I added sarge to my sources list and tried to install OOo using dselect, it seemed to want to remove many of the KDE 3 components that I had. I tried resolving the various dependencies and conflicts but in the ended opted to use apt-get to install OOo. I've subsequently removed sarge from the sources list. I suspect that this is not the Debian way of doing things but I am too busy at the moment to spend time putting the system I have back together. I did think that at some point I might backup my stuff to the woody server that I'm also running and then repartition the G4 to leave less space for OSX. I would then install woody and upgrade to testing before installing packages. Is there a better way of upgrading in the meantime without disturbing what I currently have installed? TIA Clive
