Upgrade Debian Etch to Debian Lenny

July 8, 2008 at 12:29 · Tags: , , , , , , ,

Upgrading distributions are not always easy, but on Debian it is quite easy.

1. Edit and change keywords like stable or etch to lenny

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Update and upgrade:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

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  1. catav said,

    October 27, 2008 @ 20:07

    Howto upgrade from Debian 4 (Etch) to Debian 5 (Lenny)
    You probably noticed by now, that Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 aka “Lenny” hasn’t been released in September. The reason: too many bugs need to be fixed.

    When Lenny has been released, you can upgrade from Etch to Lenny according the steps below:
    (According the official Debian documentation, these 5 steps describe the safest way to do that job).

    STEP 1:
    ——-
    Make a backup of your current Debian Etch system.

    STEP 2:
    ——-
    Change the content of the file /etc/apt/sources.list.
    This means that you need to change “etch” into “lenny”.
    So in my case i have to change:

    deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main
    deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main

    deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
    deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib

    into:

    deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
    deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ lenny main

    deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
    deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib

    Beware:
    if you use “stable” instead of “etch”, your system will make use of the packages provided by Debian Lenny from the moment on that Lenny gets stable!

    STEP 3:
    ——-
    Execute the command: aptitude update
    to get information about new packages

    STEP 4:
    ——-
    Execute the command: aptitude install dpkg aptitude apt
    to install the newest package management

    STEP 5:
    ——-
    Execute the command: aptitude full-upgrade

    Reference:
    The Debian Devel anounce

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