Upgrade Debian Etch to Debian Lenny
Submitted by ggarron on Wed, 12/05/2007 - 14:35.
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Maybe a lot of people already know this, but I will write it down here, in case anyone forget it, or of somebody does not know already.
To upgrade the Linux Debian Stable Etch to testing Lenny, just need to follow these two steps.
1. Edit sources.list
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
and change all words etch for lenny, or stable for testing
2. Update and upgrade
sudo apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
that is all, this also work if you want to go from lenny to sid, just change your sources.list accordingly.
It is also better if you start your Debian Linux in text mode to do this, so GDM or KDM could be restarted without problems.
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aptitude is recommended over
aptitude is recommended over apt-get.
Yeah! Its really true..
Yeah! Its really true..
Hi, may I know the default
Hi, may I know the default sources.list for etch?
@dannybuntu how about
@dannybuntu
how about viewing your /etc/apt/sources.list if you're using debian.
This broke my system and to
This broke my system and to to check I reinstalled etch and did it again on a clean install and still very flakey thats why it's testing I guess, so be prepared for a borked system. If you don't care then just download the netinstall cd for Lenny (160ish mb). It wont take much longer as you will be downloading at least 600mb on a dist-update anyway. Then you get a clean Lenny!!! yipeee ;)
Lenny is very stable - more
Lenny is very stable - more so than most other Distro 'releases'
however the process of 'Dist Upgrading', often results in a borked system , for fairly obvious reasons.
If Lenny is 'stable' on a clean install - its stable ;)
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