On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:44:27 +1000 Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A little to envolved at this time... > > I would like to know the lowdown of running a testing/unstable deb > system. Cause i wanna apt whatever the hell i want, (compling no real > biggy, but .deb's are so nice). I have run Testing on all my machines (including a PowerPC iBook) for two years or more and have had close to zero breakage during that time. The same cannot be said for Unstable (currently there is a bad libc in the Unstable PowerPC branch that has caused many people trouble). You just don't get that with Testing and Testing rarely lags Unstable by more than two weeks. > Would i like need to burn these ISO's: > > ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/debian-cd/unofficial/hurd Thats a distribution built around the GNU Hurd kernel instead of the Linux kernel. Probably not what you want. Instead, you should do a dist-upgrade from Stable to Testing. This is done as follows: 0) Editing /etc/apt/sources.list and replacing references to "stable" with "testing". 1) Run "apt-get update" 2) Run "apt-get install libc6 perl" 3) Run "apt-get upgrade" 4) Run "apt-get dist-upgrade" 5) Run 3) and 4) again until no more is installed :-). Step two does the upgrade for libc (the standard C library) and perl which are usually need to be upgraded first as they are essential to the upgrade process. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ With 22,100,000 legitimate businesses in the US alone, allowing each to send only one UCE per *year* gets every mailbox 60,547 emails per day. There will either be email without UCE or there will be no email. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
