If your /etc/apt/sources.list file refers to your current distribution as "stable" then once Jessie becomes the new "stable" then apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade will work.
If your sources.list file calls it "wheezy" then you need to change it to "jessie" before doing the apt-gets. If you want to keep upgrading to the latest "testing" distribution, then change "stable" or "wheezy" to "testing" and do the apt-gets. Please can I ask a dumb question here. My sources.list file was set to testing and it also was hooked up to wheezy updates. Was that unhelpful to me once wheezy became stable? Also, if you would continue being "testing" as I had tried to do (but ended up having to reinstall as testing) was it right of me to keep the testing repository links in there and change the wheezy updates to Jessie updates as I did. Was I doing something wrong there that contributed to me not being able to continue as testing without reinstalling? Thanks Michael Fothergill On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> wrote: > On 18/09/14 01:30 PM, softwatt wrote: > >> Hello. How does one upgrade the distro? I have searched the web but I am >> getting some contradictions, and I am hesitant to mess things up. >> >> All websites suggest updating the /etc/apt/sources.list file. This makes >> a lot of sense. However, the consensus ends here. Beyond that, I have no >> idea what's correct. >> >> Some suggest a simple `apt-get update` followed by an `apt-get >> dis-upgrade` >> >> Some suggest: >> apt-get update >> apt-get install apt dpkg aptitude >> apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade >> apt-get dist-upgrade >> >> Some even suggest updating the kernel using and apt-get install kernel-* >> stuff. (Subquestion: does dist-upgrade update the kernel?) >> >> Enlighten me! What is the proper way to do this? >> >> If your /etc/apt/sources.list file refers to your current distribution > as "stable" then once Jessie becomes the new "stable" then apt-get update > followed by apt-get dist-upgrade will work. > > If your sources.list file calls it "wheezy" then you need to change it to > "jessie" before doing the apt-gets. > > If you want to keep upgrading to the latest "testing" distribution, then > change "stable" or "wheezy" to "testing" and do the apt-gets. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/541b1da0.1020...@torfree.net > >
