I'd like to upgrade my etch notebook to testing, simply to have newer packages available. This machine is not visible on the internet, and I'm the only user, so security is not such a huge issue. Attempting to do this though - apt says it'll uninstall certain packages (which I use!)
I'm not sure if I can go ahead and do the dist-upgrade, and just install the packages again after. I don't want to try this and have to re-install the notebook from scratch again (it's quite a hassle getting everything working) Any advice appreciated. sources.list and output from apt-get dist-upgrade: sparky:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list # TENET mirror deb http://debian.mirror.ac.za/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb http://debian.mirror.ac.za/debian/ testing main contrib non-free # Official debian repository deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free # Official security updates deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free # WineHQ - Debian etch repository deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt etch main # swiftfox deb http://getswiftfox.com/builds/debian unstable non-free sparky:~# sparky:~# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade... 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