On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 11:32, Brian Coiley wrote: > > Regarding Sarge, isn't that unstable? What exactly does that mean? > Sarge is "Testing" - between Stable and Unstable. Sarge will soon (?) become the new stable.
> How > exactly would I switch to it? I deliberately chose to install Woody, from a > set of CD's, because I felt that for a complete dunce like me it would be > far easier than downloading and installing bleeding-edge stuff that I don't > understand. > Easy as 123. One of the benefits of Debian. 1. Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to include mirrors like these: deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ sarge/non-US main You can find your local Debian mirror here: http://www.debian.org/mirror/list 2. Login as a normal user, switch to root user using su and update the package list: $ su (supply root password) # apt-get update 3. Upgrade and install the packages #apt-get dist-upgrade Do look at the Debian Reference http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#quick-reference > I do have a network connection, which is working OK. You will need some kind of broadband internet connection. I estimate that a 56k dialup connection would take 20 hours to download the files. Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
