I'm sure some other debian user is bangina away at a similar reply, but oh well. :) Debian Stable is just that, Stable. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. The only thing that gets updated in Stable is security stuff. And whenever possible, the security stuff is backported from the latest version of the software to the version of the software that is in stable. AFAIK, bind has been the only recent exception to this rule. > > Having said that it's easy to upgrade to Woody, which is up to 2.4.16 last > So, what would be the way to do this? apt-get all packages? I haven't > touched a Debian install before, and only heard about that through the > list.... No no my good friend. First update /etc/apt/sources.list to change occurances of stable/potato to woody. (you can leave the potato lines in there if you want, and then just make new lines for woody.) Then apt-get update (updates list of available packages.), then apt-get -dy dist-upgrade (Downloads packages to upgrade from one version of debian to the latest.) When your download finishes, run apt-get dist-upgrade. (I like using the -dy switches to download first. Then I can walk away from my box, get a pepsi, watch Farscape, sleep, whatever while packages download, then perform the upgrade when I have a few spare minutes, and I don't have to wait for the packages.) AFTER you've updated to woody, you should be able to edit /etc/apt/apt.conf and add the line: APT::DefaultRelease "woody"; It might also help to create /etc/apt/preferences containing: Package: * Pin: release a=woody Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 50 In theory, when you apt-get install something, it should download something from the woody tree. But, if you apt-get -t unstable install something, apt would grab the unstable version of something and somethings dependencies. I haven't tested this out yet myself. Just read it on www.debianplanet.org. Read the apt_preferences man page and the apt howto first, and use apt-get -su install|upgrade|distupgrade to just simulate the actions that would be taken before you rely on it. Doing otherwise would be dangerous. :) Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org "I MIGHT be DANGEROUS!" --The Tick