Hi, i received you mail twice, but couldn't find it on the mailing list. Had you sent a copy there, people who know better than me would already have answered...
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 21:17, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
What do you mean by a dist-upgrade? Is that an apt-get thing?
I've been using dselect pointed to testing and just hitting "ENTER" 7 or 8 times.
Yes, it's an apt-get thing. The command "apt-get update" updates the local package listings, and "apt-get upgrade" will upgrade any packages where newer versions are available. This should be quite similar to what you do with dselect. And then, there's "apt-get dist-upgrade", that is a lot more thorough and smarter with dependency handling, but only needed when you upgrade your debian version, like woody -> sarge. Or so I thought until a few days ago. As it turned out, I had to call a dist-upgrade to get the current version of both cups and OOo. But lo and behold, printing now works again.
As a side note: I never got very fond of dselect. For normal system maintenance, apt-get update/upgrade is all you need (plus apt-get offers a download-only option I find very useful); as a package browser, someone recommended aptitude which I now like very much. Aptitude is quite similar to deslect on the first glance, but a lot more powerful and versatile.
cu, Schnobs
I tried aptitude and apt-get and did get 77 packages that have refused to upgrade for the last 6 months installed using aptitude. apt-get didn't fix them. I now get:
opie:/home/hgh# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
but openoffice still won't print, it shows release "1.1.2".
dpkg -l: ii openoffice.org 1.1.2-2 high-quality office productivity suite ii openoffice.org 1.1.2-2 OpenOffice.org office suite binary files ii openoffice.org 1.1.2-2+1 Debian specific parts of OpenOffice.org ii openoffice.org 1.1+20030814-3 OpenOffice.org office suite help (English) ii openoffice.org 1.1.2-2 English (US) language package for OpenOffice ii openoffice.org 1.1.2-2 OpenOffice.org MIME bindings for KDE
What version of openoffice did your upgrade pull down?
BTW, aptitude looks pretty nice, couldn't get the menu's to "pull-down" until I switched to a "plain" xterm.
hgh.
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