On Saturday 10 February 2007 21:07, Dinesh Shah wrote: > Dear Terrence, > > On 2/10/07, jtd wrote: > > It will. But there is a very small chance that u may have to > > intervene manually, usually with dpkg -i --force-overwrite <some > > package>. Or even manually opening the deb and copying required > > files if u are drunk. ( i am sober right now). > > Thx for the warning. :-) And how do you know you are sober? ;-)
I think therfore i am or something similiar ;-) > > You could but it could be a very very long night . > > After going through the Debian Site. I am doing following > > aptitude upgrade aptitude > > This has downloaded about 55MB of packages. > > After this step and a reboot > > I am now doing > > aptitude upgrade xserver-xfree86 > > Hope this will upgrade the X11 and related packages. Now it is > downloading about 100 MB worth of packages. > > Will keep my fingers crossed. :-) Things usually go well and in this case etch is very very close to release so should not be a problem. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
