[tex-live] upgrading Debian packages

[Frank Küster]

"Sebastian P. Luque" <spluque at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is it still necessary to include this entry in /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
>
> # Texlive
> deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
> deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
>
>
> since the packages are now available from the standard Debian unstable and
> testing sources?  I got confused by the message in
> http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html.

AFAIK ftp.it.debian.org is just the italian mirror of the main Debian
server - Norbert works in Italy and therefore used that as an example.  

You can use any mirror, and testing or unstable as you prefer.

> Also, is it still necessary to purge before upgrading of the texlive
> packages, as it was recommended in the past?  Thanks in advance.

No, this was only for upgrades while it was in experimental.  Now it
should work just as usual: apt-get update or apt-get dist-upgrade.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)