Thanks Gary, that helped a lot.

My original post was ambiguous (tired, frustrated), but you hit the nail on
the head.

I want to step to the testing kde from 2.22.

When I tried using apt-get install kde, I got:

flipper:/home/jvl# apt-get install kde
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
kde: Depends: kde-core but it is not going to be installed
Depends: kde-amusements but it is not going to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages

Does broken packages mean I'm stuck, or to I need to install kde-core and
kde-amusements first?

/Icebiker

"Gary Dale" <garydale@rogers.com> wrote in message
news:Uenec.1150$jKO.238@news04.bloor.is.net.cable. rogers.com...
> Icebiker wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not terribly clear on how one goes about upgrading a Debian Woody
> > installation.
> >
> > What I tried to do is to point dselect at the testing distribution,
however
> > I don't see newer versions in dselect (I'm looking to upgrade xfree86
and
> > kde).
> >
> > Is this the right way to do it, or do I have to start from scratch using
> > sarge? I'd really rather not.
> >
> > Thanks in advance . . .
> >
> > /Icebiker
> >
> >
> Be careful. Do you want to upgrade the distribution or just some packages?
>
> The key to everything is the /etc/apt/sources.list file. I keep versions
> for stable, testing, and unstable, then "apt-get update" using the one
> I'm interested in at the moment.
>
> What I'd do is point your sources to either testing or unstable,
> depending on how close to the edge you want to get, then do "apt-get
> update". After that, do "apt-get install <package(s) you want updated>"
>
> For example, you can get KDE 3.1.4 from testing, or 3.2.1 from unstable.
> Either is a major improvement over the 2.2 in stable.
>
> "apt-get upgrade" will upgrade all of your packages. I do not recommend
> doing this. Even in testing, some may not work properly with other
> packages. At least when you're doing it a package at a time, you have
> some control and lots of feedback as to exactly what's going to happen.
> Keep an eye on the packages that are to be removed!
>
> When the next stable release comes out, you can do an "apt-get
> dist-upgrade" to get it. You can also do it to get the current testing
> or unstable release, but as per "apt-get upgrade", I wouldn't do it.