On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote: > On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 10:43:12 -0400 (EDT), Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: >> On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:58:22 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >>> >>> Migrating from Lenny to Squeeze (or any migration, really) is tricky. >> >> I know. I manage fine from bo 2 hamm, from hamm 2 potato, from >> potato 2 woody, from woody 2 sarge and from sarge 2 lenny. > > If you've been around that long, then why is it that you didn't know to > reply to the list instead of to me personally? Please post *and* reply > *only* to the list. You can CC someone if they ask for a CC, but always > include the list as one of your recipients. > >>> You can't just change your /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to the >>> squeeze repositories and then do "aptitude update;aptitude full-upgrade". >>> The problem you are describing above is only the first of your problems >>> if you have done that. You need to follow the upgrade outline mentioned >>> in the Release Notes. You didn't say how you did it, and it's too late >>> in any case, but I just wanted to mention that while we're on the subject. >> >> I did this: >> - edit /etc/apt/sources.list (changed lenny/stable to squeeze/testing) >> - aptitude update >> - aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude >> - aptitude full-upgrade (few times) > > That is not the proper procedure. Read the release notes. > The most important step you missed is to issue "aptitude dist-upgrade" > *before* the "aptitude full-upgrade", but there are other steps you left > out as well.
You must have meant: issue "aptitude safe-upgrade" *before* the "aptitude full-upgrade" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/r2i6d4219cc1004091335p9b2d0ac1uf7b7a280cbee...@mail.gmail.com
