[SOLVED]Passed on installing 7 remaining disks on install. What now?
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What do you mean "upgrade"? Is this a Debian version upgrade?
This will keep you on Debian squeeze (Debian 6), but will upgrade to the most recent packages in squeeze. These packages will contain security fixes and major bug fixes etc.
To upgrade to a new version of Debian you would need to edit your sources.list file and use "dist-upgrade" instead of "upgrade" (the exact recommended procedure will be in the release notes for Debian 7, when it is released).
will only update the package database, not the actually installed packages.
To update the system (install the latest security fixes) you have to use
Code:
aptitude upgrade
after updating the package database.
Quote:
root@debian:/home/theadmiral# aptitude upgrade
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
aptitude update just lists what is available to you. If you're not trying to move to the next distro it won't upgrade. Any packages that you need can now be gotten thru apt-get, aptitude, synaptic or softwarecenter. If you know what you want or need it is now available. As far as the other dvd's they were for you to select what you wanted from them, not to install everything.
It seems that the University of Chicago does not host Debian repositories anymore, so you can remove those entries from your repository list.
Other than that the output looks fine, your system is up to date and should not throw error-messages when updating in the future anymore.
OK, that works. Now do the following (copy/paste is easiest!):
Code:
aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade
This updates your system to the latest packages, including any new kernel available, plus any dependencies.
We're not interested in which and how many packages are updated, just the final lines at the bottom that tell you what the upgrade process has done. And any error messages, of course
OK, that works. Now do the following (copy/paste is easiest!):
Code:
aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade
This updates your system to the latest packages, including any new kernel available, plus any dependencies.
We're not interested in which and how many packages are updated, just the final lines at the bottom that tell you what the upgrade process has done. And any error messages, of course
The attached image file still pops up.
I will post the output of the commands you recommended.
To my knowledge, I am not trying to do anything. I am just running my OS idly, then all of a sudden this pops up. You are right, it is weird.
Tell you what I am going to try...gonna try uninstalling/reinstalling Icedove. I will get back to you on any results I get.
Thanks!
The problem as noted by the title appears to be solved, so I will mark it as such, and start a new thread, if necessary, about the problem with Icedove. Thanks for all the help from you guys! I really appreciate your dedication.
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