hi ,

i have a debian woody with kde2 and gnome 1.4 so how can i updat them through the internet as i know i have to type the following
apt-get update (something)
apt-get upgrade (something)
but i do not know what i have to type after update .for example if i want to update the kernels what i have to type .

best regards
ayman amin

i don't use debian, but i think you could do something like :
apt-get search kde
then apt-get upgrade (or is it update?) kde

about the kernel i think you should do it by hand.
well i'll leave the rest to Uniball since he's the debian master ;)

peace

Salamo 3alaikom,

Why don't you try to see a help for apt-get? May be a man page for apt-get. Search in your manpages Ayman.

Salam.

You really should stick to the debian-users mailing list.

Debian has 3 branches
stable, testing, unstable
kde 3.x and gnome 2.x were not included with woody.
you can work with testing or unstable "unstable is a very bad idea" and you'll get both BUT you won't get security updates except with stable
there is a gnome 2.2 backport for woody
just add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody/ gnome2.2/

then:
apt-get update
apt-get install gnome-core gdm gtk2-engines*
you'll need xfree 4.2.1

deb http://people.debian.org/~blade/woody/i386 ./
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

KDE:
deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.2/Debian stable main
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

I'm NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU DAMAGE YOUR INSTALLATION
I DIDN'T TRY THE GNOME 2.2 BACKPORT AS I'VE COMPILED IT MYSELF
AND I DIDN'T TRY THE KDE PACKAGES.

you'll need xfree 4.2.1
I'd installed gnome 2.x on XF86 3.3.6 !!!
but it was very difficult to do that (I copy some .so form 4.2.1 to 3.3.6 )
not every thing work but gnome-games, nautilus, galeon ..
works

Oooops
I'm not sure about the gnome version but it's the one that comes with RH8

I'm talking about debian woody not redhat
You'll need xfree 4.2.1 because one of the packages requires it!