woody or sid?

zilaei · 12-10-2003, 03:46 PM

can a type something to see what my friend have installed

bureado · 12-10-2003, 04:13 PM

'cat /etc/debian_version'

It should display a single line with the installation type: stable (woody), unstable (sid) or testing (sarge)

Greetings,

zilaei · 12-10-2003, 04:21 PM

I got 3.0 back...is that woody

bureado · 12-10-2003, 04:25 PM

Sure:

2.1 What is the latest version of Debian?

Currently there are three versions of Debian GNU/Linux:

release 3.0, a.k.a. the `stable' distribution
This is stable and well tested software, it changes if major security or usability fixes are incorporated.

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colnago · 12-10-2003, 11:38 PM

Check out what I get:

debian:~> cat /etc/debian_version
testing/unstable

I guess that is sarge divided by sid, which must equal 3+

PS you can easily move up to sarge or sid using apt-get, there was a thread a few days ago detailing how to do it. It is only a few commands (and some waiting for packages to download).

bureado · 12-11-2003, 10:56 AM

When you apt-get to newer versions of package your "debian_version" turns "testing" "unstable" or whatever (I think there's "stable" and "frozen"). If you install Knoppix (in my case) you will automatically get "testing/unstable" because it isn't a vendor Debian distro.

I think that, in order to upgrade you might do first an

apt-get update

Then there's something like

apt-get upgrade

But, please first check 'man apt-get' for more information.

llamakc · 12-11-2003, 02:55 PM

If you are trying to move from stable to testing, or from stable to unstable, or testing to unstable, one must edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file and change the instance of "stable" to whatever they desire (e.g. testing or unstable.).

THEN you run

apt-get update

THIS literally fetches new package descriptions.

THEN to move up a release, you do

apt-get dist-upgrade

which does a distribution-level upgrade.

apt-get upgrade should be run periodically to upgrade already installed packages.

HTH