[Sheflug] Another stupid Debian Q.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

Hi everyone.

Just having got my RH7.1 all installed and pretty much everything
working, I'm still itching to rip it all apart and go Debian, however
I'm a little confused as to how I can be selective with an apt-get
dist upgrade (or whatever the command is).

I'm intending to install 2.2r0 and upgrade that with apt to "Woody" -
but looking through the package list, I note there are about 3
different versions of the kernel, a couple of GCC packages (2.95.x and
a 3.0 snapshot at least) and so on...

How would I:

(a) tell apt I want kernel-2.2.x (or better still 2.4.x)
(b) not to grab everything - 56k modems are not built for 6 disk
downloads!
(c) not to bother with things like GCC 3.0-snapsnot :-)

Having only done a couple of basic installations with Debian, and no
updating, I haven't got the slightest clue, and haven't seen anything
truely enlightening on Debian.org.

I'd like to get the system going ASAP - probably this (long) weekend
if I can.

On a similar note, does anyone have a full set of Ximian debs that I
could get on CD?

I would of course pay for CD+postage+a pint for your troubles :-)

Cheers.

Baz.

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Barrie J. Bremner

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