[NBLUG/talk] apt-get question

[Crawford Rainwater]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-admin at nblug.org [mailto:talk-admin at nblug.org]On Behalf Of
> Robert Hayes
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 11:45 AM
> To: NBLUG
> Subject: [NBLUG/talk] apt-get question
> 
> 
> I installed Knoppix on my hard drive, and have the video and net 
> running now.
> Knoppix doesn't come with the full gnome environment installed, 
> and I'd like 
> that.
> It is also installed as a testing/unstable release.
> 
> Do I have this right? All I have to do to update (upgrade) my 
> running system 
> is change the line in /etc/apt/apt.conf from
> 

Actually, go into the /etc/apt/sources.list file and manually
change the "unstable" or "testing" to "woody" would be appropriate
here.  I have noticed this with Knoppix base installs as well,
which I personally rather have woody or stable.

> APT::Default-Release "testing";
> 
> to "stable"
> 
> Can it possibly be that easy?
> 
> Then I just run dselect?  How is apt-upgrade different from the "Update" 
> feature in dselect?
> 

"update" vs. "upgrade"
Update just performs a table update of the available packages
for the distribution type (i.e., stable, testing, or unstable).
Upgrade will actually upgrade the packages to the current versions
as a whole (e.g., v 1.0 (old) to 1.0.xxx (new)) within the confines
of that distribution type.

apt-get is a "higher level" version of dpkg and dselect, though
more user friendly (IMHO) than dselect.

HTH.

--- Crawford