Hi, On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:22:06PM +0200, Sigue wrote: > I know this is a bit to generic question, and it has been probably > already discussed a 1000 times, but I'm fairly new, so please forgive > me if I ask it nevertheless.
Yes. If you ask this question here, answer is NO. (Half joking ...) What ever other somewhat experienced people say, just do not "upgrade" to unstable without _fair_ knowledge of Debian Package system. I recommend you to start with upgrading to "testing" first. With tesing, you can have partial unstable on demand like: # apt-get install libc6/unstable. Read "man apt_preferences" in testing/woody. Once you upgrade to apt in woody, you can have pckages from unstable while having testing as your system and can up/down-grade at your finger tip. See my web page on my sig where I wrote what I do :-) > 1. Just checking. If I would want to upgrade to Woody, I'd need to add > 'testing' or 'woody' to the sources.list, and then I'd need to issue > 'apt-get dist-upgrade'? Yes. Use following to be safe side: # apt-get -u dist-upgrade > 2. Is it possible to somehow delete the package database, and make apt > reread the official ones from debian.org? # apt-get update > 3. Is it possible to go back to the state in dselect before you > started making selections? I know that i theory 'R' should go back to > the state before the current selection, but sometimes it seems to get > stuck in a loop and alway brings me back the same dependency screen. > Also if I made several selections, but then change my mind and want to > go back to the state where it was when I've started dselect, is this > possible? Yes. (Provided you keep woody at) > Many,many thanks for your help in advance! best regards, Balazs No problem :-) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
