Hi Frans In testing out upgrade of a fresh sarge installation which included the desktop task ie. both Gnome and KDE, in desperation I found that (after updating sources.list to point to etch and 'apt-get update') the command
aptitude upgrade aptitude gives Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: ... The following packages will be upgraded: base-files console-common console-data debconf debconf-i18n defoma desktop-base dictionaries-common discover1-data doc-debian doc-linux-text docbook-dsssl docbook-xml dosfstools edict esound-common fortunes-min gcc-3.4-base gnome-desktop-data gnome-icon-theme gnome-mime-data gnu-efi gs gs-common gsfonts gtk2-engines-spherecrystal hicolor-icon-theme hotplug iamerican ibritish imlib-base initrd-tools kanjidic kdeartwork-misc kdeartwork-theme-icon kdeedu-data kdegames-card-data kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data kdewallpapers knewsticker-scripts libeel2-data libevent1 libfinance-quote-perl libgda2-common libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgtk1.2-common libgtk2.0-common libgtksourceview-common libhtml-tableextract-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libmad0 libmailtools-perl libmime-perl libnews-nntpclient-perl libpam-runtime libpango1.0-common libsnmp-base libss2 libtext-wrapi18n-perl libtimedate-perl liburi-perl libwnck-common libwww-perl linux-kernel-headers lsb-base mailx makedev manpages manpages-dev menu-xdg mime-support myspell-en-gb myspell-en-us ncurses-term net-tools pppconfig sharutils sysv-rc ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-opensymbol wamerican xml-core 83 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 662 not upgraded. Need to get 58.5MB of archives. After unpacking 11.9MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] and quite happily installs the 'etch' version of aptitude. I suspect this trick will work no matter what other Debian packages one has installed. After that I found I had to run aptitude install libfam0 and aptitude install libglu1-mesa to break two conflict loops and thereafter aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade proceeds quite happily. It says thet 0 packages will not be upgraded - but I won't know how well it works till it completes. Regards Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]