On Tuesday 10 February 2015 08:13:11 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > In for a penny, in for a pound. So I did get the libcurl4* install > from backports done. And everything installed swimmingly. Emacs and > Rstudio seem to work fine. > > Now, to the upgrade.... > > 1. Changed all wheezy to jessie in sources.list > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > deb http://kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id/debian/ jessie main > deb-src http://kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id/debian/ jessie main > > deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main > > # jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile' > deb http://kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id/debian/ jessie-updates main > deb-src http://kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id/debian/ jessie-updates main > > #jessie backports > deb http://kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id/debian jessie-backports main > #jessie R packages > #deb http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/cran/bin/linux/debian jessie-cran3/ > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > 2. followed by > > # apt-get update > # apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade > # apt-get dist-upgrade > > > should get me there to Jessie 8?
If everything installed swimmingly and is working fine, why? And, if you do do it, do an #apt-get upgrade before the dist-upgrade. I never quite know why people do the download-only stage, unless there are problems with bandwidth and you want to download overnight? Perhaps someone can enlighten me? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201502100828.06505.lisi.re...@gmail.com