On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 14 September 2015 05:00:01 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Sunday 13 September 2015 16:13:19 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > > > > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one > > > > > version of Debian to other without losing data or without > > > > > formatiing the partition, simply as Ubuntu does. > > > > > > > > > I always found it best to follow Debian's instructions in the > > > > Release Notes and/or Installation Instructions of the version > > > > you want to upgrade to. AND back up your data before doing > > > > anything.. > > > > > > > > Many times, there's more involved than just simply apt-get > > > > update, apt-get upgrade, etc. > > > > > > > > B > > > > > > He doesn't want to upgrade from one version to another. He just > > > wants to do a normal upgrade in Jessie, that because of where we > > > are now, and when he last upgraded, will take it from 8.1 to 8.2. > > > > Oh. But that's what he said. Others seemed to misunderstand, > > too. In any case, if he had read the instructions . . . > > > > What is it with people and instructions? > > I know. It took me a while to work out what he actually wanted with > all the drama. ;-) People who come from Ubuntu don't understand > about point releases. Since I don't know Ubuntu, I don't know what > it is that they are thinking of.
Different terminology. With most distros "update" means what "upgrade" does with Debian. And "upgrade" means "dist-upgrade." Yes, Ubuntu is a different beast. The only experience I have with it is from its debut release years ago. Hated it so much, I uninstalled it a week later and never tried it again. I don't know why people love it so much. To each, his own, I guess. B
