On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:00:18AM +0200, Marcus wrote: > > 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. >
It appears you'll want to upgrade past potato all the way up to woody (testing). Potato has only Perl-5.005, Xfree 3.3.x, Gnome 1.0.56 (i think, that or 58... 1.0.x anyway). Hope I've helped...
