despite reading the docs.. i've not quite figured the difference between apt-get upgrade
and apt-get dist-upgrade Can anyone enlighten me in words of one syllable? thanks.. David. On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, O Plameras wrote: > Ken Foskey wrote: > > >My first kernel panic after an apt-get upgrade (udev strikes again...) > > > >How do I get debian to totally verify itself. I lost libX11 and also > >udev packages in the crash, it says it is installed but it just is not. > >I have forced the install `apt-get install --reinstall udev libx11-6` > >but I want to check everything now. > > > >Any suggestions? > > > > > > These are the things I'd do, > > #apt-get update > #apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade > > The order of execution is important and this > may take a long time. > > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
