On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Barker, Gerald A (MD) wrote: > I installed Debian 3.0 off cdroms. Everything was fine. > I then wanted to keep up to date with the updates so I edited the sources > file to update then upgrade off the web. I started this and downloaded some > files but then realized that I had put unstable instead of testing in my > sources file. I think testing is what I want since that is what I used > before I installed 3.0. > > 1) Is testing what I want?
depends on what you are doing, stable is reasonably up to date at this point (since the move to woody) I would recommend using stable for most everything and installing stuff from testing only if it provides features not available in stable, install packages from unstable only if you are willing to have it break on you. > 2) What do I do now? I haven't installed any of the unstable but how do I > keep it from installing? remove or comment out references to unstable in your /etc/apt/sources.list use 'apt-get remove' or 'dpkg --purge' to remove packages that you installed unintentionally partially downloaded packages will not have been installed so if you change your sources list and run 'apt-get update' they will be ignored. > Do I do apt-get clean? then edit sources to > testing and start over with the down load? from the sound of it you haven't hosed your system yet ;-) apt-get clean will delete .debs from /var/cache/apt/archives but won't remove installed packages > > Thanks > Garry > -- http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi)
