Fedora core 3 and apt-get
Matthew Page
ashersdad at gmail.com
Sat Mar 5 02:05:31 UTC 2005
Because I don't delete anything out of the cache and my work computer
started at FC3 also. I do have all of the CD's, but the CD's don't
have the most up-to-date versions of the software. In fact, my cache
directory is almost 4 gigs worth of RPM's for FC3. Did I mention that
I am on dialup at home and am lucky to connect at 40 kbps?
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 19:54:06 -0600 (CST), Satish Balay <balay at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Matthew Page wrote:
>
> > Here is the short version of what's up. I have a work computer with a
> > fast internet connection running FC3. I have a home computer with a
> > POKEY-slow internet connection running FC2. I thought that it would
> > be great if I could copy the /var/cache/apt directory and the /etc/apt
> > directory to my home computer, I could run apt-get dist-upgrade and
> > Voila! my home computer would be upgraded to FC3. Well... it ALMOST
> > worked... Problem is, when I run apt-get dist-upgrade, it says that
> > there are no update, no changes what-so-ever that it can make.
>
> Why not just get FC3 CDs and do the upgrade? How can you be sure that
> your 'apt' cache has all the pacakges that are reqired for an FC2->FC3
> upgrade?
>
> Satish
>
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