Re: [TCLUG:16986] upgrading Debian

[Daniel Taylor <dante@plethora.net>]

Hi. Debian's installation sucks, but dselect (with apt as backend) is the
_best_ package management tool I have ever used. The interface is clunky
as anything, but it does things (like handle dependencies on removing
packages) that I have not seen any other package management program even
attempt to do.

If it weren't for dselect I would still be using Slackware.

Daniel Taylor

On Mon, 1 May 2000, Tim Neu wrote:

> On Mon, 1 May 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote:
> 
> > Hey everyone,
> > 
> > OK, so I got Debian installed. It's not really very hard. I must say,
> > however, that dselect has got to be one of the ugliest programs I've seen
> > lately. Powerful? Yes. Cool? Yes. Intuitive? Yeah right.
> > 
> > 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?
> > 
> > I would encourage other to give Debian a try. The package management is
> > truly impressive. Obtuse as it is, dselect is an amazing tool.
> 
> Don't put yourself through such agony!  Use apt-get instead:
> 
> apt-get install foo #downloads and installs a package and it's dependancies
> apt-get update  # Updates the list of packages from the internet. 
> apt-get dist-upgrade # Upgrades all install packages
> apt-get remove foo # remove a package. 
> 
> Dselect is terrible.   I have never met a Debian fan who liked it.  
> The automatic-update feature of dselect is cool, but that is what apt-get
> is for!  :-)  
> 
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