On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:50:55AM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I have got several Debian installations, however, my desktop > > machine has Ubuntu 6.06 installed. What I wish to know is if there is an > > easy way to change installations (without actually going through the > > install) by changing the repositories and doing > > > > #apt-get dist-upgrade > > > > as I know that apt has "Super Cow Powers" 8-) > > > > Is it wise to do it this way? > > Has someone else done this? > > Any tips, tricks to doing it? > > > > It should be fixable though. Any time there is a problem you can > --reinstall all related packages. I guess if you really wanted to play > it safe, you could --reinstall everything--synaptic should make it easy > to do that. There may be other little things to watch out for, e.g. > when I installed the Ubuntu kernel, it didn't automatically update grub, > so I had to run dpkg-reconfigure on my regular kernel. > > Angelo >
Change the repositories list in /etc/apt/sources.list - if need be, just # out the lines for Ubuntu. Use command line apt to see the scale of changes: apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade but DON'T blindly hit yes :) If there are say 250 packages to change over (and assuming there are no major downgrades where Ubuntu version numbers lead Debian): Update apt, aptitude, synaptic - use apt-get install apt, synaptic, aptitude Update the kernel, initramfs tools Update perl and other base system packages Update X So take it in small groups of packages: if you go to install 5 and suggests/recommends another 5 do 10 - but try not to do 500 at once. Iterations through apt-get should work. If you do the apt-get update / dist-upgrade - let us know how many packages needed to change. I'd certainly be interested. AndyC > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
