-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 12:57:44AM +0200 sigi said: > Hi, > > some days ago I had to reinstall my system, and I chose debian sarge to > install on it. Now, I liked to have more recent packages on my machine, > like I had before. > > I tried a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' but this wants me to uninstall nearly > my whole gnome and kde stuff... totally over 300 packages. > > Is this normal, and I should reinstall this packages, after the upgrade, > or is there sonething wrong with this? > > In my sources.list I only have the 'official' mirrors listed, up to now: > > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/ testing main contrib > non-free > deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free > > Is there something wrong here, or should I risk this upgrade?
I did this once about a month back and broke my entire system. I was merely looking for a kernel upgrade to get my nForce-based sound card working. Things may have changed since then. I didn't mind losing the gnome and kde stuff but I also lost my X setup. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The years teach much which the days never knew. My PGP key: http://www.gnubies.com/encryption/sign.txt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFETAmgZyXhknb+33gRAlIoAJwLomYjYOxuK+yEXlubzZpR84hrFwCgjHUv kdlaC+pFoeMa9e0nAx/eD6w= =7S/Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
