On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:44:06PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +0000, lostson wrote: > > Hello > > I have a laptop and a desktop machine running sarge. I would like to > > update them to etch. I am thinking I have heard I can do this with > > aptitude, is this possible and if so anyone got a links to a good doc? > > Or can I jsut use my sources list from this machine on the other 2 and > > do a apt-get update then apt-get upgrade ? Thanks. > > It is possible, just edit '/etc/apt/sources.list' in your favourite > editor and replace all occurances of "stable" or "sarge" with either > "testing" (if you want to stay with newer stuff after etch is released) > or "etch" (if you want to use etch once it becomes 'stable'). Then a > simple 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' (mind the dist-) will > update. Watch your updating however, there have been some changes since > sarge, like xfree86 -> xorg, so prepare to reinstall some packages and > deal with some brokenness. > the difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade
before |sarge|etch| |x | | |x | | |x | | |x | | |x | | |x | | |x | | |x | | |x | | |x | | |x | | upgrade |sarge|etch| |x | | |x | | | |x | |x | | |x | | | |x | | |x | | |x | | |x | | |x | | |x | dist-upgrade |sarge|etch| | |x | | |x | | |x | | |x | | |x | | |x | | |x | | |x | | |x | | |x | | |x | cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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