On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 02:14:43AM +0000, Preston Landers wrote: > I'm having problems with using apt-get dist-upgrade to get from Debian > 2.0 to 2.1. My system currently has many slink packages installed, but > not all of them, and I would like apt-get to just upgrade them all for > me. > > I've got apt 0.1.9 installed and I've edited my /etc/apt/sources.list to > point to frozen. I do a apt-get update and everything appears to be > fine. However, apt-get dist-upgrade does nothing. Even though I have > /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to frozen, it just upgraded a couple of > packages (rvplayer, pine, some other things) and quit. Didn't upgrade > my entire system... I know I have more outdated hamm packages than that. > > Also, I can't do apt-get install anything. It just says there is no > installation candidates. I've double checked my /etc/apt/sources.list > as I've said, and run apt-get update a thousand times. It simply > doesn't seem to "see" that there are all these wonderful new packages > out there to upgrade. > > Does this sound familiar to anyone? Any suggestions? Thanks in > advance!!! >
Did you run "apt-get update" after changing the sources list? Unless you do, apt-get doesn't know what packages are available in frozen. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -1335 |
