On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 17:40, Rachel Andrew wrote: > > > > >The point is that there are no KDE 2.2-debs for Potato! > > ahhh.. ok =) > > > >If your box is NOT a server, needing 99% uptime and the latest > >security-patches available cause of a high possibility to be attacked, you > >can upgrade your whole system to woody and then get the KDE 2.2-bins from > >sid. > > yep that would work. I was wary of using Woody because I'm still very much > new to Debian (I had used RedHat before but it was a lot easier to > install). The box is behind a firewall and is just for testing stuff really > so upgrading would be an option. > > If you could explain how I go about this I'd be grateful. Can I upgrade via > apt-get ?
What I do is simply replacing 'stable' by 'testing' in your apt source list update your available package list and start install. In most cases everything works fine. Anyway, I always backup my entire system before upgrading ... just in case. Woody works well. By the way, when I upgraded a system from woody to sid my KDE packages could not be automatically installed. I had first to unistall all KDE packages and install the new ones after and than it worked. Bye, Steffen
