Re: Old Release

From: Muhammad Reza (reza_at_mra.co.id)
Date: 12/20/04

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    Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:53:35 +0700
To: Peter Nuttall <p.s.nuttall@dur.ac.uk>, debian-user@lists.debian.org

    >Ok, you are asking two questions here, Before answering them, can I point
    >you at http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html which will make
    >getting answers to your debian based questions easier.
    >
    >
    Thanks for the link,

    >This is because you are running woody, also known as stable. The idea behind
    >stable is that it is very stable, stable enough to run for years without
    >crashing, stable enough that you could forget your root password to a woody
    >server and it wouldn't be a problem, stable enough that the very earth
    >could be rent asunder a woody box and it wouldn't fall over.
    >
    >Because most people don't have the need for such a platform, and would
    >prefer a more up to date packages, debian has two other streams. They are
    >called steams because your can't really install them. Instead you install
    >stable and then jump on a stream.
    >
    >The two streams:
    >
    >Testing aka Sarge
    >
    >This is the next stable release and the debian devs upload new packages in a
    >effort to fix all the bugs in it. It will be released to replace woody at
    >some point.
    >
    >unstable aka sid
    >
    >This is where the newest packages are tested. Unstable is very cutting edge,
    >with new versions as up to date as possible. to give an example of this,
    >when kde 3.3 was released, it was in unstable before any other distro had
    >it.
    >
    >More information about both streams is just a google away.
    >
    >to switch to one of the two streams open the file /etc/apt/sources.list and
    >change all references to stable with testing or unstable. Then run apt-get
    >update && apt-get dist-upgrade . Warning: this may well break your system.
    >
    >once again, more information is a google away
    >
    >
    >
    my /etc/apt/source.list get file from /cdrom, i have 7 CD of woody, and
    all line references to unstable.
    here is some snip for detail;
    deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r3 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-6
    (20041027)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
    non-US/non-free non-free

    debian:/# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    Calculating Upgrade... Done
    0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

    how do i upgrade my package, (ex:KDE), should i switch my source to
    debian package repository ? and if yes, what repository should i use ?

    please enlight this noob.

    regards
    reza 

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