Just did the Unstable upgrade from Progeny: # apt-get update # dpkg --purge --force-deps libfreetype6 # apt-get -f dist-upgrade.
I bypassed the recommended shut down of PCMCIA for fear of losing PCMCIA entirely and having to start all over again! I presume that I need to reboot to see the results of Unstable? Should I also do a kernel upgrade to 2.4.1.0-6 or some other version? (I have read that that version was pretty stable. What will play nice with the Unstable I just upgraded to?) I did get an error: "Unpacking replacement libpanel-applet0 ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gdm_2.2.4.1.-1_i386.deb Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)" Does this mean that GDM is going to fail to reboot properly? Thanks! Doc > I have been using unstable for probably the last 6 months and I haven't had a > problem. I do an apt-get upgrade every couple of weeks or so just for the sake > of it, even though I don't really need to. > > The reason it's called unstable is that the packages aren't guaranteed to work > together, or without problems - not that they are unstable. So far for me, > everything has worked fine. If you want the latest versions of software, then > I would say go to unstable - but only if you do have a fast connection. Since > the packages get changed with each incremental update, you'll have to download > what for a dialup connection would be a huge amount every time you upgrade. > > By the way, if you are using apt-get, downloaded files are stored in > /var/cache/apt/archives. Whenever I do a major upgrade I clean the files out > by issuing apt-get clean. Otherwise I would have hundreds of MB of files in > there. > > > scott
