> I've updated slink to potato one month ago or so. In general apt-get did > its job very smothly, only a couple of packages (not more than 10) made > some configuration problems, and due to this sometimes the > dist-upgrade prcess got interupted, and had do be started again (after the > problem was solved). But got through it without any big problem. After > upgrading to potato the system runs as stable as slink did. The dayly > upgrades I do go mostly smoth, too.
And just how does apt (or apt-get) work for upgrading from slink to potato? (I'm not trying to be lazy here, I do read the manual pages for apt-get and sources.list, but I'd like to get some help from someone who has already experienced it ... BTW, should there be an apt command and an apt manpage? I just have apt-get and apt-cache). Recently I did a manual upgrade (ftp download + dpkg upgrade), but my machine broke; I started to get glibc related errors and others, but what finally broke was my motherboard. I changed the m'board and processor (pentium 120 to AMD K6-2), and tried to restore the system, but too many bits and pieces seemed to be missing, broken or corrupted. I had to reinstall Slink. Dependencies, pre-dependencies, and interdependencies are just a bit too hard to deal with for a major upgrade, so I'd like to give apt a try, at least for a partial upgrade (a total upgrade is just too expensive except for USers). I attach a file with the packages I want to upgrade (based on my previous attempt); could anyone tell me how to do this with apt or apt-get? TIA -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLII ad Urbe condita mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Spain ~Spanje ~ Spanien -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6
