On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:09:03PM -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Girish Kulkarni wrote: > >> What is the typical timescale in which web site update and >> upgrade/installation documentation come up? Can I change "etch" to >> "lenny" in my sources.list to upgrade?
Yes. Lenny is already in the mirrors. It's just not called "stable". And it is anyway a good idea not to use the names 'stable' and 'testing' in sources.list . > > I did that months ago. Make sure you do it in text mode and first do > "aptitude upgrade" after that's done then do "aptitude full-upgrade", if > you already know this then disregard my comments. :) Start with: aptitude install aptitude This will upgrade apt, dpkg, aptitude, libc6 and some other stuff. Generally newer apt/aptitude is more apt in handling upgrades. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org