On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 21:45:21 +0000
"Mr. Spock" <spock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Could you clarify for me: I've got Debian Woody 3.0 Stable (+security
> patches) installed, but I need Unstable for the newer apps and libraries.
> However, the old Stable version of gcc (2.95.4) is not happy with the new
> (3.2?) one,
My machine is Debian Testing, but I have gcc-2.95 and gcc-3.3 running quite
happily side by side.
> and my attempt to apt-get things brought up unmet dependencies.
> So is there a way around this, short of reinstalling the whole base system?
> I'm sure Debian is cleverer than that!
Yes it is. Here's how its done:
- Edit /etc/apt/sources.list so that it points to unstable (or testing)
instead of stable.
- apt-get update
- apt-get upgrade
This will upgrade a large number of things but leave an even large number
still to be done.
- apt-get install libc6 perl
This upgrades the two really critical components that must be correct before
the next step.
- apt-get distupgrade
That does the rest.
The above procedure has worked for me on at least 10 different machines.
Erik
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