Re: [TCLUG:16986] upgrading Debian

[Dave Sherohman <esper@usinternet.com>]

Timothy Wilson said:
> Now that I've got a working Debian system, I'd like to upgrade to the latest
> unstable (woody) binaries. Am I correct in assuming that I can simply change
> /etc/apt/sources.list to refer to 'unstable' instead of 'stable'? Presumably
> I would then re-run dselect to download and install all of the packages.
> Correct?

In principle, yes.  In practice, you should instead use the command-line
apt-get tool thusly (after updating /etc/apt/sources.list):

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

'update' refreshes the list of available packages and 'dist-upgrade' installs
the latest available version of everything with a few additional precautions
to avoid breaking anything, since you're likely to be replacing everything on
your machine.

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