> apt is already installed. Then dependencies should be met automatically. If they aren't, you should perhaps submit a bug against apt.
> > I personally have been using potato for months now with only a few > > problems, so upgrading to potato "early" wouldn't be a terrible idea. > > But how would one do this? Go online, enter apt-get dist-upgrade, and > wait for.... well, a too long time. I can download 10 MB per hour, > maybe 20 if I manage to get ISDN to work. Downloading a whole > distrinution via apt would take days But you don't download the whole distribution, just the packages you actually have installed. I dist-upgraded to potato over 56K modem, and it took like six hours. > and I do not want to be online for such a long time. I wouldn't work > anyway, because the phone would not hold for such a long time > without dropping the carrier. And it's too expensive. That's a separate problem, of course. > So, are there other options? I guess I could download the whole potato > tree of the ftp server (the connection at work is fast), put it onto > some CDs, extract the tree to my harddisk, and use apt to upgrade. Or you could download the two ISO images for the Debian CDs and use the apt-cdrom method to install. > So I guess I would have to wait for potato being stable, and then get > a new CD image. Not necessarily a bad idea. > Or switch to Mandrake... <duck> If you find it the best choice for you, go for it. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con's Science and Technology Guest of Honor in 2000 will be Geoffrey A. Landis. See <http://www.iconsf.org> for I-Con information.
