apt-get packages

[Beattie]

I have things mostly working in debian now. Here is the problem I am having with apt-get...
I installed everything from a potato CD, and got it working that way. But now I want to upgrade to the newest version of gnome. I have 1.0 installed and want 1.4 Anyway, I added testing to the sources.list after looking up which distro had the version I wanted on packages.debian.org and then I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade figuring that since the older version was installed, and apt-get upgrade's job was to upgrade, I would get the newer version. well, it didn't work. Gnome 1.0 is still here. Am I doing something wrong with sources.list or something? what do I have to do to make it install the upgrades properly?

[scanez]

What do you have in /etc/apt/sources.list? You should have something like
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
in there. Then apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.

[ 12 April 2002: Message edited by: scanez ]

[Beattie]

Yea, that's what I have. I was just looiking again though and I am not sure that gnome 1.4 is in in testing anyway, sme of the packages are version 1.4, but many others are 1.0. And just to make sure, to install gnome, I need to apt-get install gnome-core right? and it will install the dependencies for me and all?

[Beattie]

to try to get it to work, I took out all of the gnome packages and figured that I could reinstall them by getting gnome-core. This left me with a non-functional gnome installation... what else do I need to get? I dont see any plain 'gnome' entries or anything. The X server works though... I can run the desktop off another machine.

[sarah31]

As suggested it would probably be best for you to do an apt-get dist upgrade. This will upgrade everything from potato to woody including all the gnome stuff. You can procede by upgrading each gnome component one by one, but there are alot of packages to upgrade.

[Beattie]

alright... I will try that...

I decided to reinstall the whole thing from scratch since I have been screwing with a lot of things, many of which don't work anymore. And when I installed it and ran apt-get for the first time on this install (I was tring to install ssh) it took the liberty of uninstalling all of the gnome packages. any idea why it did that?

Life goes on

[scott_R]

In case you check this again, or others need help, I'll add this. After your: apt-get dist-upgrade

try:

apt-get -f install

I know when I installed woddy my first few tries, it took several of both commands alternated to get everything to work. Of course, it could have been the operators fault... :)

[scanez]

And as sarah31 said, you will want to do an apt-get dist-upgrade (notice the dist) after installing potato (don't even any packages after the reboot) before anything else, well after changing /etc/apt/sources.list that is. Then go into dselect, choose to install xserver-xfree86 and any dependencies it lists (such as fonts and xbase-utils). Then go back and get the gnome stuff and the rest of the goodness :)

[netfox39]

I stumbled onto a massive sources.list on the internet
http://www.bsu-hog.org/sources.list