*- On 1 May, Eric S. Blau wrote about "How do I upgrade slink->potato using apt-get?" > Hello, > > I am fairly new to Debian. Is there an easy way to upgrade from slink to > potato using apt-get? Or, should I not even mess with potato, being fairly > new to Debian? > > Thanks, > > -ESB > >
I personally am waiting since the glibc2.1 problems are not all sorted out yet. An alternative is to just download and install individual packages that you want to update, as long as they do not depend on lib6 >= 2.1. But if you want to do the whole thing just change your sources.list file to point to potato instead of slink. In mine that would change deb http://debian.midco.net/debian slink main contrib non-free to deb http://debian.midco.net/debian potato main contrib non-free Then as root do the following after reading the apt-get man page. apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade Go watch a movie or something. Thats it. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
