I have slink installed and want to upgrade to potato, but I'm relatively new to Debian (and Linux). I read two explanations on upgrading, but still have a few newbie type questions:
Is "apt-get upgrade" sufficient, and what does "apt-get dist-upgrade" do? I read that I should make sure all packages are _not_ on hold. Is there an easy way to do that without dselect? Perl 5.6x is not in potato, and if I upgrade I'd like to ignore Perl-5.005 and get 5.6. How do I do that using apt-get? Primarily I'm interested in upgrading to Perl 5.6, latest Gnome, and Xfree 4 (It has TT-Fonts, I believe?), but from what I read, a system upgrade is recommended. Thanks, Marcus Friedlaender
