Re: How to upgrade from slink to potato

[Alex Kwan]

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

Re: How to upgrade from slink to potato

[SCOTT FENTON]

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
 
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How to upgrade to slink?

[tboy]

Hello!

I have been using hamm, and now want to upgrade to slink via FTP for apt, 
gnome and some new key libs, etc. Which packages do I need? How to upgrade
in a most economic way? Would anyone mind giving me some suggestion?

Please detail your suggestion because I'm not a veteran. Thanks.

Re: How to upgrade to slink?

[Ed Cogburn]

tboy wrote:
 
 Hello!
 
 I have been using hamm, and now want to upgrade to slink via FTP for apt,
 gnome and some new key libs, etc. Which packages do I need? How to upgrade
 in a most economic way? Would anyone mind giving me some suggestion?
 
 Please detail your suggestion because I'm not a veteran. Thanks.


Get apt if you haven't already and install it.  In dselect, set
its access method to 'apt' (this shows up after you install apt). 
In /etc/apt/sources.list, include a line for both hamm and slink. 
Then run dselect 'upgrade' (this gets the hamm and slink
'Packages.gz' files which apt merges) then 'select'.  Pick the
stuff you want to install in addition to the stuff already shown
for upgrade and run 'install'.  It will take awhile. :-)


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Ed C.