One Way to Update a Fresh Install of PCLE17

[down8ve]

I've had a heck of a time getting this running right until doing this:

Install PCLosE17
Run the Repo Speed Test and update your repos accordingly
Close Synaptic when it launches
Open a root terminal and type "init 3" which drops you out of your desktop environment and into runlevel 3
Log in as "root", type in your admin password
run "apt-get update" and then "apt-get dist-upgrade"
type "Y" in answer to the question.

Allow the machine to do its thing.  I think the command I used to shut the machine down was "shutdown -r -t 3"

[melodie]

Hi, to shutdown the machine you can do just "halt", and to reboot you can do just "reboot".

Isn't that more easy to remember ?

[Bald Brick]

type "Y" in answer to the question.

This advice is a bit dangerous. If everything has gone as expected and the program just asks whether you want to continue with the upgrade, then it's naturally all right to answer "Y". But if everything isn't all right and the program asks whether it should continue anyway, then you should type "n". Really.

[melodie]

type "Y" in answer to the question.

This advice is a bit dangerous. If everything has gone as expected and the program just asks whether you want to continue with the upgrade, then it's naturally all right to answer "Y". But if everything isn't all right and the program asks whether it should continue anyway, then you should type "n". Really.

Hi,

Things don't go wrong when you just finished invoking "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade". It they go wrong it's later, along the download process.

[Bald Brick]

type "Y" in answer to the question.

This advice is a bit dangerous. If everything has gone as expected and the program just asks whether you want to continue with the upgrade, then it's naturally all right to answer "Y". But if everything isn't all right and the program asks whether it should continue anyway, then you should type "n". Really.

Hi,

Things don't go wrong when you just finished invoking "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade". It they go wrong it's later, along the download process.

Precisely. The question "Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y" comes before the download starts (after apt-get dist-upgrade has reported how much additional disk space it requires). But if there's something wrong with the server the program will tell you so instead and ask you whether you want to continue anyway. And if it does you should usually answer "no". If you then type "Y" instead, things will usually go wrong during the download process that follows.