Re: [TCLUG:16986] upgrading Debian

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

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?

...or apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade.  :)

> I would encourage other to give Debian a try. The package management is
> truly impressive. Obtuse as it is, dselect is an amazing tool.

si.

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