Newbie upgrading question

2001-01-30 Thread Harrie ter Rele
Hi,
I'm working on a debian 2.0.38 system. Now i have to upgrade samba (to 2.0.7).
I need to upgrade some other product(s) also.
Can i upgrade from libc5 to libc6 without many problems using dpkg or do
i have to do this another way (how ?) 

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Re: Newbie upgrading question

2001-01-30 Thread Justin B Rye
Harrie ter Rele wrote:
 I'm working on a debian 2.0.38 system.

You mean the kernel is Linux 2.0.38; the Debian GNU/Linux
distribution has its own version numbering, which is independent
of the kernel version (though the numbers happen to be similar).
With a kernel that old I'd guess it's Debian 2.0, known as slink;
the current version is 2.2(r2), known as potato.  You can check by
looking in /etc/debian_version. 

 Now i have to upgrade samba (to 2.0.7).
 I need to upgrade some other product(s) also.

Well, I don't know your circumstances but I'd recommend upgrading to
2.2(r2) - which includes Samba 2.0.7.  And as a separate step,
switching to a more recent kernel.

 Can i upgrade from libc5 to libc6 without many problems using dpkg or do
 i have to do this another way (how ?) 

You'd cause yourself some problems going from slink to potato using
just dpkg - do you know about dselect?
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Justin B Rye - writing from but not for Datacash Ltd