Alice M. Pinard writes: > I don't upgrade distros very often, is there documentation I could be > pointed to to read on what steps I should take? And is there anything > special about moving to an unstable distribution? (Again, I've only ever > used stable distributions before)
Well, I've never really seen anything, but I started from stable and went to testing, and that was how I used to set up my machines. This is all from memory, but here's the gist of things: 1) backup 2) change your sources.list file to point to testing instead of potato or stable 3) apt-get update 4) apt-get install dpkg apt # this may not be strictly necessary # anymore 5) apt-get dist-upgrade 6) that's it. 7) Okay, you may have a bunch of task* stuff installed, so when you use dselect, those will be listed as obsolete, and you may have to do some cleaning up. You will probably also have other obsolete things--I can't really tell you what they are, unfortunately, but I've never found anything that made a difference, but I had never really used the stable distribution before upgrading. I'm sure others on this list can add some things I'm missing. Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
