Debian Tutorials » upgrade http://www.debiantutorials.com Copy/Paste tutorials for Debian Linux Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:35:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Upgrade from etch to lenny http://www.debiantutorials.com/upgrade-from-etch-to-lenny/ http://www.debiantutorials.com/upgrade-from-etch-to-lenny/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:14:45 +0000 admin http://debiantutorials.net/upgrade-from-etch-to-lenny/ Debian has released a stable version of Debian 5.0 (lenny). If you're running previous version of Debian, you can easily upgrade.

1. Update all packages currently installed to the latest etch versions

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

2. Replace all occurrences of etch with lenny in the apt sources file (pico /etc/apt/sources.list). Here's an example of what the file could look like after the change:

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib

3. Update apt repository

apt-get update

4. Upgrade apt, dpkg and aptitude packages first

apt-get install apt dpkg aptitude

5. Do a dist-upgrade to upgrade the rest of the system

apt-get dist-upgrade

6. Reboot

reboot

7. Check the debian version

cat /etc/debian_version

It should read version 5.0.0 or greater

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