Re: Upgrading to Sarge from Woody

[disciple@exis.net]

Thanks Sam.  Here's the contents of my file;  How should I modify it?

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7
(20031201)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-6
(20031201)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-5
(20031201)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-4
(20031201)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-3
(20031201)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-2
(20031201)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1
(20031201)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main







# deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main


> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:36:36AM -0500, disciple@exis.net wrote:
>> Just want to make sure that I have this right.  After searching the
>> archives, I found this:
>>
>> # vi /etc/apt/sources.list
>> :%s/woody/sarge/g
>> :wq
>>
>> # apt-get dist-upgrade
>>
>>
>> Should I delete everything in this file and just use the above?  Is this
>> all that is needed to have it upgraded?  Am I missing something?  Any
>> other considerations?
>
> what they're saying is, edit /etc/apt/sources.list, and replace all
> instances
> of the word "woody" with the word "sarge", then save the file.  Those
> lines
> beginning with ':' are a shortcut to do that in the "vi" editor.
>
> then, from the shell, type:
>
>   apt-get update
>   apt-get dist-upgrade
>
>
> (they left out the apt-get update, I'm pretty sure that's necessary)
>
>
> good luck!
>