On Wednesday 19 December 2001 04:43 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have a Debian Potato. I would like to use Balsa 1.2.3, which is > available as > part of Debian Woody. I have read in many places that an upgrade > from potato to > woody is easy, but I must be missing something. > > apt-get dist-upgrade <cr> > > is not enough. What am I missing? > > Paul > > PS Am I crazy to comtemplate this upgrade?
You need to change your /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to unstable instead of stable (except the security line), then apt-get update then apt-get dist-upgrade or apt-get install balsa to get just what's needed instead of an entire dist upgrade. Kent