Oscar M. Seoane escribió:
Antonio Lemus escribió:
Ok explico. Para actualizar de Slink a Potato tienes que poner las
suigietes lineas en el archivo /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable
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El lun, 19 de mar de 2001, a las 08:23:43 -0600, Oscar M. Seoane dijo:
Quisiera saber qué es exactamente lo que debo de hacer para poder
actualizarme desde la consola; me refiero a que tipo de comandos debo de
utilizar.
lynx -source
¡Hola!
Soy totalmente nuevo con Debian. Tengo recien instalada la versión Slink
en modo texto y quisiera actualizar todos los paquetes a Potato o Woody
(¿Cuál me recomendáis?).
Quisiera saber qué es exactamente lo que debo de hacer para poder
actualizarme desde la consola; me refiero a que tipo
Hola
Tengo 2 equipos con lprng, uno es slink y otro potato. En el potato, hago
lpr nombrefichero.txt siendo este fichero la leche de largo, y me devuelve
el control inmediatamente y continua la impresion en background. En slink
no devuelve el control hasta que la tarea ha sido entregada a la
Tengo una base en postgresql en slink. Ayer pasé este pc de slink a potato
sin ningún problema, excepto la base de datos.
He leído la migración que indica Debian y dando los comandos que vienen no
he sido capaz de actualizar la base de datos. Tengo guardado en backup la
versión 6.3.
Her usado
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
no he sido capaz de actualizar la base de datos.
Tengo guardado en backup la versión 6.3.
...
¿Alguien ha pasado de 6.3 a 6.5 en postgresql con este procedimiento ? o ha
usado otro aunque sea más rupestre.
¿alguien me puede explicar como lo ha hecho?
Yo lo que he
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tengo una base en postgresql en slink. Ayer pasé este pc de slink a potato
sin ningún problema, excepto la base de datos.
He leído la migración que indica Debian y dando los comandos que vienen no
he sido capaz de
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:09:46AM -0700, Matheson wrote:
Hey,
I'm trying to upgrade my slink to potato with the three cd-set
of binaries, but I don't know what my sources.list should look
like to include all three cd's. If someone could please send
me an example file, I would appreciate
Hey,
I'm trying to upgrade my slink to potato with the
three cd-set of binaries, but I don't know what my sources.list should look like
to include all three cd's. If someone could please send me an example
file, I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Cameron Matheson
Just completed the upgrade Slink to Potato using CDs.
Everything went perfectly; a really excellent operation. Congratulations
and thanks to the Debian developers!
Anthony
--
Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone)
Book Reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell
de slink a potato reinstalé potato partiendo de cero.
Lo que sí puedo decirte es que el cliente dhcp de potato que se
utiliza cuando instalas a partir de los discos es pump. Está tomado
prestado de de Red-Hat y funciona con núcleos 2.2.x o superiores.
Mi consejo es que actualices el núcleo
a alguien mas? ¿Habría que mandar un bug a debian?
A ver, algun desarrollador de Debian que me de pistas.
[...]
Hola.
A mí no me ha pasado, pero porque he hecho trampa: En vez de actualizar
de slink a potato reinstalé potato partiendo de cero.
Lo que sí puedo decirte es que el cliente dhcp de potato
Hola
Tenia montado dhcpcd (el cliente de dhcp) en slink y al actualizar a
potato no lo ha actualizado a dhcp-client. Vale, son paquetes distintos,
no version nueva, pero en las release-notes de potato no dice nada al
respecto. ¿Le ha pasado a alguien mas? ¿Habría que mandar un bug a debian?
A
' on this list that the problem is with the
kernel.
But if I upgrade for potato by changing the apt sources for
'frozen', what would happen to my networking?
(All the network sevrvices seem to be working with slink, but potato I
didn't manage to install at all, because of that module...)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with slink, but potato I
didn't manage to install at all, because of that module...)
Upgrading will not change the kernel so your networking services will
continue to work just fine. When you do get around to upgrading your
kernel (a good idea) either compile your own or select the idepci flavor
Hi!
I recently upgraded my slink box to potato with apt. Everything works
well but the new ssh:
neptun:/home/papt# dpkg --configure ssh
Setting up ssh (1.2.3-5) ...
dpkg: error processing ssh (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 18:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
I recently upgraded my slink box to potato with apt. Everything works
well but the new ssh:
neptun:/home/papt# dpkg --configure ssh
Setting up ssh (1.2.3-5) ...
^
I think this was fixed around -7, and I
Adrian Thiele wrote:
Peter Allen wrote:
(everything looked fine on boot), I then tried to login:
When I try I can type my username, it waits three seconds and
asks for my username again. (No password asked for and no login)
When you ran the config after the install did you keep your PAM
voy1d [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was using Storm for a while, and I just got so pissed off with the
fact
the packages were all wrong that I gave up and went back to Debian.
But
yeah, they don't really look after the updates etc, so I wouldn't
bother
with it.
Huh? Which packages are all
Paul McHale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone done this yet? Could you give details including
sources.list
lines used? I want to run potato due to increased apps support. I
might
just wait for Storm to release a new distro based on potato.
No problem. My /etc/apt/sources.list for Potato
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: Upgrading Storm (slink) to Potato
voy1d [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was using Storm for a while, and I just got so pissed off with the
fact
the packages were all wrong that I gave up and went back to Debian.
But
yeah, they don't really
voy1d [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The fact that the commands are different, for example bitchx instead
of
BitchX and everything I foudn was out of date.
voy1d
Have you used Debian? Storm *is* Debian with a few extras. Someone who
is used to Debian could use a Storm system and not be aware he/she
Has anyone done this yet? Could you give details including sources.list
lines used? I want to run potato due to increased apps support. I might
just wait for Storm to release a new distro based on potato.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
--
Paul McHale
Work: 937-253-7610 Double E
, June 19, 2000 11:40 AM
Subject: Upgrading Storm (slink) to Potato
Has anyone done this yet? Could you give details including sources.list
lines used? I want to run potato due to increased apps support. I might
just wait for Storm to release a new distro based on potato.
Thanks in advance
Ok, last time I send this. I've had exactly zero responses
which makes me suspicious...
I posted this to -user but got no response, and it could
be a little problem with potato if it happens to more people
than just me...
Hi,
I've just upgraded from slink with a lot of potato to potato.
(apt-get
Hi,
I've just upgraded from slink with a lot of potato to potato.
(apt-get -f dist-upgrade)
having rebooted to let everything settle in (everything looked fine
on boot), I then tried to login:
When I try I can type my username, then it waits three seconds and
asks for my username again. (No
Hi,
I've just upgraded from slink with a lot of potato to potato.
(apt-get -f dist-upgrade)
having rebooted to let everything settle in, I then tried to login:
When I try I can type my username, then it waits three seconds and
asks for my username again. (No password asked for and no login)
I
Greetings. Thanks to all who offered assistance on my upgrade from
Debian 2.1 to frozen potato. The process went fairly well, apart
from a circular dependency that was resolved by re-installing 2.1 with
the 2.2 kernel. However, there seems to be an intermittent problem
with the dynamic linker
Hi!
Because I am afraid the upgrade will loss my
nstalled application and user's information.
What is the safe way to upgrade slink to potato?
Thanks
If you hav a cable, DSL, or T* connection, wait for potato to stablize,
then run apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade
Alex Kwan wrote:
Hi!
Because I am afraid the upgrade will loss my
nstalled application and user's information.
What is the safe way to upgrade slink to potato?
Thanks
Hello!
First, I'm proud of Debian!
I upgraded my Debian system to Potato this weekend, and everything went
really fine! Enven my glibc 2.0.7 programs ran (almost all)!
Thank you all developers! Go ahead! Make the world better!
Second, I'm a bit confused about one point:
I compiled gnome,
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 02:11:19AM -0300, Taupter wrote:
I compiled gnome, wmaker and a large bunch of X-related software, and I
was using a file in the /etc/X11/ (I can't remember its name, since it
was deleted during the upgrade) to set my default window manager to
Taupter wrote:
I was poking update-alternatives, but didn't find a way to point my
default window manager to /usr/local/bin/gnome-session.
Yes I did read the man 8 update-alternatives, but it was a bit confusing
to me (as I think it is a bit confusing to anyone but the man writer aka
Ian
Hello all
I'm near from upgrading my Slink to Potato using dselect's FTP, but I'm
afraid if it can drive my system _really_ bad (broken).
I tried it six months ago, and the result was a reinstalling Slink from
CDs.
Did anyone try this way? Worked fine?
Taupter
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Moore, Paul) wrote:
Aargh. In order to run dhcpcd on 2.2.14, I need the version from
unstable (frozen, I guess). But that depends on the unstable version
of libc6, which depends on the unstable version of debianutils, which
Apologies if people have seen this before. I initially sent it via the news
gateway at our site as I was having trouble getting subscribed, but I'm not
convinced that the gateway is making it to the full mailing list (other
messages I've sent that way are not in the archives). Now that I've got
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Moore, Paul) wrote:
Aargh. In order to run dhcpcd on 2.2.14, I need the version from
unstable (frozen, I guess). But that depends on the unstable version
of libc6, which depends on the unstable version of debianutils, which
depends on the unstable version of libc6
If I
¿Has probado apt-get dist-upgrade?:Yo he he hecho más o menos
la misma actualziación hace unos días sin problemas.
dist-upgrade
dist-upgrade,in addition to performing the function
of upgrade, also intelligently handles changing
um, is it possible to upgrade to potato from slink yet? when I try, I get
problems with recursive pre-dependencies between libc6, ldso, and
debianutils. I think I broke my system (I sort of expected to) by forcing
things, but once things are fixed, I will want to upgrade again.
please CC
No se que estaré haciendo mal, pero me instalé slink 2.1r4 en el nuevo
equipo y mediante dselect con el método apt, en el sources he actualizado
para que se traiga todos los paquetes de potato, hasta ahí bien, se tira más
de tres horas bajando todos los paquetes actualizados y por fín, cuando ya
Ok, this problem has me totally stumped. I have upgraded from slink -
potato twice in the past without any problems. But on this new
installation of slink, after I changed my /etc/apt/sources.list to look
like:
# Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits
# your mirror
We're running into a problem with the version of glibc that's on our
news server, which is running slink. I've dist-upgraded a firewall
machine at home a few weeks ago without a hitch but the machine at the
office is a news server that handles over 4 gig of alt.binaries
newsgroups a day (we handle
Hi,
I'm a user who are way behind the debian upgrade. I've
recently mirror the slink and plan to upgrade from my
debian 1.3.1 to slink. However, I've just noticed the potato
was recently frozen. I'd like to solicite you all comment
on whether I should upgrade to slink or potato
upgrade to slink or potato?
Secondly, what are the differences between the twos? Lastly,
I will rebuild the kernel and I also noticed that there were
kernel 2.0.xx and 2.2.xx. Which should I use?
In order to upgrade to potato at the end of the day, the easiest
way is a new installation
Hi All,
It seems to me that potato would support the latest jdk1.2.2
better than slink and I'm also need the use of jdk1.2.2 as
well.
In this case, I'll go for potato from hamm. Well, I just need
to know one more thing, does potato support IPMASQ the same as the
previous versions
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 01:01:51PM -0800, Michael Perry wrote:
Hi all-
I just got dsl here so have a system I would like to take from slink to
potato using the apt-get install dist-upgrade. Has anyone done this
recently? Any issues?
I did the upgrade last friday on my laptop. no real
Hi all-
I just got dsl here so have a system I would like to take from slink to
potato using the apt-get install dist-upgrade. Has anyone done this
recently? Any issues? Also would just like to say thanks to everyone that
develops for Debian and to the mailing list for all the great advice
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 01:56:51PM -0800, Michael Perry wrote:
I just got dsl here so have a system I would like to take from slink to
potato using the apt-get install dist-upgrade. Has anyone done this
recently? Any issues? Also would just like to say thanks to everyone that
develops
-
Please reply to debian-user@lists.debian.org
or directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-
Hello,
I want to upgrade my Debian Linux Box from slink to potato. I have got a
4-CD copy of the potato
under kernel 2.2?
Thanks
-Original Message-
From: Brian Servis
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: 12/30/99 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato
*- On 30 Dec, Patrick Dahiroc wrote about Kernel Upgrade: Slink to
Potato
hi
i'm thinking
*- On 31 Dec, Patrick Dahiroc wrote about RE: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato
thanks for the info on Potato. if i do decide to go to Potato is there
something i should be wary of. it appears from the other distro that the
2.2 kernel is working fine. does Potato have any specific issues
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Patrick Dahiroc wrote:
: thanks for the info on Potato. if i do decide to go to Potato is there
: something i should be wary of. it appears from the other distro that the
: 2.2 kernel is working fine. does Potato have any specific issues with the
: 2.2 kernel i.e is
hi
i'm thinking of upgrading to Potato - from what i've read is that Potato is
pretty safe to use - i realize that i need to upgrade my kernel to do this.
If is give the commands
root apt-get update
root apt-get dist-upgrade
with the sources.list pointing to unstable. will this
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Patrick Dahiroc wrote:
: hi
:
: i'm thinking of upgrading to Potato - from what i've read is that Potato is
: pretty safe to use - i realize that i need to upgrade my kernel to do this.
: If is give the commands
: root apt-get update
: root apt-get
On 30-Dec-1999 Nathan E Norman wrote:
Alternatively you could install the kernel source and create your own
package.
apt-get install kernel-package kernel-source-version_you_want
cd /usr/src
tar xIf kernel-source-version_you_want.tar.bz2
cd kernel-source-version_you_want
*- On 30 Dec, Patrick Dahiroc wrote about Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato
hi
i'm thinking of upgrading to Potato - from what i've read is that Potato is
pretty safe to use - i realize that i need to upgrade my kernel to do this.
potato should run just fine on a 2.0.x kernel. I would only do
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 11:00:52PM -, Pollywog wrote:
I am running potato on my other machine, but I want to upgrade my laptop from
Slink to Potato. If I understand correctly, you had to install a whole new
Potato system from scratch. That is exactly what I want to avoid; I want
On 27-Dec-1999 Mark Brown wrote:
No, no reinstall should be required - for me, one of the great things
about Debian is that it supports in-place upgrades on running systems
(you don't have to boot an installer or anything). Just pointing apt or
dselect at a source of potato packages and
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am running potato on my other machine, but I want to upgrade my
laptop from
Slink to Potato. If I understand correctly, you had to install a
whole new
Potato system from scratch. That is exactly what I want to avoid; I
want to
upgrade the system I
One apparrent success: apt-get dist-upgrade slink - potato on an old
ast laptop. The kernel is actually 2.0.29 and hasn't been changed for
a long time! (I still have it so I don't break my pcmcia ethernet,
mostly due to laziness).
Only problem I have seen is that the new system tried to load
On 27-Dec-1999 Nathan O. Siemers wrote:
One apparrent success: apt-get dist-upgrade slink - potato on an old
ast laptop. The kernel is actually 2.0.29 and hasn't been changed for
a long time! (I still have it so I don't break my pcmcia ethernet,
mostly due to laziness).
I broke my pcmcia
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Pollywog wrote:
On 27-Dec-1999 Nathan O. Siemers wrote:
One apparrent success: apt-get dist-upgrade slink - potato on an old
ast laptop. The kernel is actually 2.0.29 and hasn't been changed for
a long time! (I still have it so I don't break my pcmcia ethernet
On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 07:18:09PM -, Pollywog wrote:
I broke my pcmcia stuff and I am unable to fix it. I think it has to do with
trying to install a kernel the Debian way. I will trying reinstalling a small
slink system and then upgrade via ppp. If that does not work, I will have to
On 27-Dec-1999 Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
BTW, I didn't know about the debian-laptop list until today. That might be
the best place to discuss this.
I did not know until now :)
thanks
--
Andrew
On 27-Dec-1999 Mark Brown wrote:
PCMCIA support depends upon some kernel modules which are provided in a
seperate package to the kernel. When you install a new kernel you also
need to install a version of these modules that matches your new kernel.
I did that, but still lost pcmcia.
I recall seeing many posts about systems being rendered unusable or broken
after upgrade from Slink to Potato. Is this still a problem? I do not want
to try it if I will just break my system.
thanks
--
Andrew
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*we all live downstream*
Pollywog wrote:
I recall seeing many posts about systems being rendered unusable or broken
after upgrade from Slink to Potato. Is this still a problem? I do not want
to try it if I will just break my system.
I am a reformed Red Hat user. I've upgraded to potato on both my
machines
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 07:42:37PM -, Pollywog wrote:
On 26-Dec-1999 kometboy wrote:
[Updating to potato]
Thanks for your thoughts on the subject. I could be wrong, but it seems I saw
more than a few posts from people who had upgraded and had some not-so-minor
problems. Unless
it using a rescue disk. The only sollution was to
install the whole system new from the scratch. :-(
But I'd say that potato is stable enough to use it without serious problems.
I am running potato on my other machine, but I want to upgrade my laptop from
Slink to Potato. If I understand
I have a working command called fromdos on my test system which is a
box that has been upgraded from bo to hamm to slink to potato. It also
uses the dos2unix symlink. Does anyone know where the current .deb
package for this can be found. I am building a new server and this
command is NECESSARY
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 02:47:49PM -0600, John Foster wrote:
I have a working command called fromdos on my test system which is a
box that has been upgraded from bo to hamm to slink to potato. It also
uses the dos2unix symlink. Does anyone know where the current .deb
package for this can
fromdos is included in the sysutils package.
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 02:47:49PM -0600, John Foster wrote:
I have a working command called fromdos on my test system which is a
box that has been upgraded from bo to hamm to slink to potato. It also
uses the dos2unix symlink. Does anyone know
Hi,
Could anyone tell me exactly how how to upgrade from slink to potato with apt?
Thanks
Rick
Rick Knebel
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Martin Fluch wrote:
There are some debian packages for that: bug and reportbug
Please don't report another bug about that. Instead, read any of these bugs:
#47363, #50286, #50540, #52052, #46270, #50286, #50540, or #52052
--
see shy jo
Svante == Svante Signell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Note: the potato version is unstable, and you are more likely
to encounter problems with it rather then slink.
However, if you are willing to submit bug reports, I am
sure that most developers will be grateful.
Svante Hello, Since I'm new
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On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Svante Signell wrote:
Since I'm new to Debian I don't know where to report (possible) bugs
yet I'm posting it here. Please advise me to the correct list next
time. The lists subscribed to so far are: debian-announce,
debian-news,
This is a very interesting message. Thanks to both of you. Unfortunately,
this is still quite obscure for me, as I am definitely a newbie (forced to
upgrade from slink to potato to make my laptop work).
How can I install a library (by hand)?
Bye
Alessandro
P.S. non-technical intriguing
I downloaded a week old potato snapshot
binary-i386 and binary-all directories
what should i do now ? i don't want to upgrade every package manually. Is there
any rules how can i use apt-get across my LAN
to upgrade distro automatically ?
--
On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 10:35:52PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote
Hello,
I recently installed slink on a new SCSI disk for my dual oc 450 MHz
Celeron machine. (suse 6.2 is already on an IDE disk).
Since I'm new to .deb-based systems I would like to ask a few questions:
(I have been running
Last night I upgraded my fairly stock slink machine to potato using
apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade. I have various questions.
The last group of questions is about all the errors that occurred.
o Does potato contain all of the Y2K upgrades in slink and a half?
And all current security
Dan Christensen wrote:
o Does potato contain all of the Y2K upgrades in slink and a half?
And all current security updates?
Yes.
- Throughout the upgrade I got the following message:
Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at
On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 10:24:03PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote:
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libslang.so (No such file
or directory), skipping
ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtcpwrapGK.so.1 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomnithread.so.2 is
Graham Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I went that path also (dist-upgrade to get potato) and had some of the
same problems.
The most serious for me was that my pcmcia modem card stopped working
somewhere along the way.
I also have had this problem. One thing that makes my modem work
Hello,
I recently installed slink on a new SCSI disk for my dual oc 450 MHz
Celeron machine. (suse 6.2 is already on an IDE disk).
Since I'm new to .deb-based systems I would like to ask a few questions:
(I have been running RedHat since 5.0 up to 6.1 and rawhide, mandrake
6.1 and suse 6.2 on
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 06:54:54PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote:
RH's mailing lists have more people which means more people to
volunteer to answer questions. When I go to newsgroups, it's easy to
spot a good or bad one. In a bad one, you'll see a list of posts with
RedHat has tech support
I'm having major problems upgrading from slink to potato (stable to
unstable apt sources). After one of the packages is being setup, I get
a whole list of stuff like this:
depmod: /lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia/SOMETHING.o is not owned by root
OK, I think we're getting closer. When I upgrade from
Ben Collins wrote:
...
Please stop trolling for comparisons here. Comparing how Debian works, to
how RedHat works, is like comparing Church and Government. They are two
different things, and have two different philosophies.
Agree.
If somebody wants to compare things, compare Linux with NT.
Salman Ahmed wrote:
...
Although I don't advocate (re)compiling kernels your situation sounds
like one where it might help. Have you tried to compile a kernel from
sources ? Either the 2.0.36 or one of the 2.2.x ones. Another poster to
this thread mentioned this as well. You might want to
Hi,
I'm having major problems upgrading from slink to potato (stable to
unstable apt sources). After one of the packages is being setup, I get
a whole list of stuff like this:
depmod: /lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia SOMETHING.o is not owned by root
Then after something related to PCMCIA gets
Hello,
Did you install a new kernel when you upgraded to potato?? If so, did you
install from
sources or from a kernel image?
I updated from slink to potato on my laptop at the weekend and had no real
problems with
the upgrade. However, I did make sure that I had all the packages I needed
I have Slink, but have spent some time over the last few days updating
essentially all the required base and standard packages from Potato. So,
when I look at packages for Slink or for Potato, which one am I supposed
to choose? For instance, the October Gnome. Should I avoid the Slink version
Hi,
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 11:04:11PM -0600, David J. Kanter was heard to state:
I have Slink, but have spent some time over the last few days updating
essentially all the required base and standard packages from Potato. So,
when I look at packages for Slink or for Potato, which one am I
Can someone provide a definition of slink? of potato?
Thanks,
Randy Kaplan
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Randy M.Kaplan wrote:
rkapla Can someone provide a definition of slink? of potato?
slink = debian v2.1
potato = debian 2.2
is that what u wanted ??
nate
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--
Vice President Network Operations http
*- On 11 Nov, Randy M.Kaplan wrote about slink and potato
Can someone provide a definition of slink? of potato?
Slink is the current stable version of Debian 2.1r3. The code name
slink comes from the Slinky character in the movie Toy Story.
Potato is the current unstable version of Debian
slink: to move in a quiet, furtive manner; to sneak
potato: a plant, emSolarnum Tuberosum/em, native to South America
and widely cultivated for its starchy, edible tubers.
Randy M.Kaplan wrote:
Can someone provide a definition of slink? of potato?
Thanks,
Randy Kaplan
Hi,
I have a machine running slink, but I need some packages only available on
potato.
Is it possible to install those packages (preferably with dselect or
apt-get) without updating the whole system to potato?
As soon as I included the unstable directories in apt, dselect forced me
to update the
Stefan Langerman:
Is it possible to install those packages (preferably with dselect or
apt-get) without updating the whole system to potato?
Yes, you can do it directly with apt-get by:
* Pointing your sources.list to potato
* Running 'apt-get update'
* Running 'apt-get install packages'
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Dave Baker wrote:
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Todd Suess wrote:
I was brave, I just did apt-get dist-upgrade and waiting about 10 hours
for it to download everything and upgrade. Have had very little trouble
with it.
-Todd
ps. for this to work, you of course
:33 AM 10/18/1999 +0530, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote:
Often you will see Slink = Stable, Potato = Unstable, but
I have been using potato for a while now will little or no problems,
and it works a lot better in many ways, at least for me.
I am running slink but I want to upgrade to potato. How do I go
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