debian upgrade woes

[blink]

Hello All!

I have successfully installed debian potato (minimal-with no extras, I'll add those as I go). My problem is that when I try to upgrade to either woody or sid I get lots of perl and debconf errors.

The commands I am using are:
apt-get -f dist-upgrade
and
apt-get dist-upgrade

Should I upgrade perl and debconf first (before dist-upgrade)?

What have other people been doing to go from potato to woody to sid?

Can I just go from potato to sid?

Thanks for your help!

Blink

[rod]

What you have suggested seems the way to go.

apt-get update
apt-get install perl-5.6
apt-get install debconf

After I ran the above commands I did a 'apt-get upgrade' before I ran 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.

I just finished an dist-upgrade to unstable and all went fairly well.

Good luck and have fun.

Regards,
Rod