RE: Considering a distro switch.

"Craighead, Scot D - VSCM" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.pdxlug
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Thank you.  And thank you to everyone else for the info!

-----Original Message-----
From: Robby Russell [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 5:03 PM
To: PDXLUG, a Portland Linux user group
Subject: Re: [PDXLUG] Considering a distro switch.


Craighead, Scot D - VSCM typed this on 03/25/2004 04:54 PM:
> Wow.  That what I wanted to hear.  I've used apt from freshrpms.net 
> before and it always worked well.  It looks like all you would have to 
> do is download and install the apt rpm and then type these commands:
> 
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> 

almost. You have to set change your sources to point to the fedora 
sources... dist-upgrade doesn't mean *upgrade to fedora* so you will 
have to look up the proper repositories first.


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