First thanks much for the steps for doing this upgrade. So far as I can
tell, it's not possible to rebuild gnome with all the accessibility bits
included without first being on an unstable distro first. Second the
Xwindows interface once I get it talking may enable multimedia access
conssole certainly didn't on the streaming media I tried it out it was
just audio media and wouldn't work for lack of avisynth.dll which is what
mplayer claimed it needed. Let's see if I can ask a more intelligent
question which if it can be done might be a good Step 0 in this upgrade
process. Where is the list of installed packages kept on these systems,
if I can store a list I can make a script out of it and more quickly
return to where I was if a cd reinstall is necessary using that script to
download the missing packages? I think I can use sed to strip the version
stuff off the end of the package names once I find that list or hope I
can.
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Magnus Therning wrote:
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 05:16:02AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
What would the steps be to go from sarge stable to sarge unstable using
apt-get? For now I'm restricted to console mode until or unless I
figure out how to get debian's xwindows interface talking.
First off, Sarge is the stable release, Sid is the (permanent) name of
unstable. :-)
Step one is to think once again of why you are doing this!
Step two is to edit /etc/apt/sources.list. This is the relevant part of
mine:
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
Yes, you should include 'testing' as well as 'unstable'.
Step three is to run `apt-get update`, then `apt-get dist-upgrade`. If
you're religious this is a good time to pray...
/M
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