On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +0000, lostson wrote: > Hello > I have a laptop and a desktop machine running sarge. I would like to > update them to etch. I am thinking I have heard I can do this with > aptitude, is this possible and if so anyone got a links to a good doc? > Or can I jsut use my sources list from this machine on the other 2 and > do a apt-get update then apt-get upgrade ? Thanks. well, I think the standard procedure is to change your sources.list, and your default distibution in apt.conf and then apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. but it can be pretty ugly. I've done it twice taking sarge all the way up to sid and what I did was clean up my system first. I apt-get --purge removed any packages I wasn't using and then used deborphan to clear out the built-up cruft. My theory was the less I had to upgrade the better. Definitely back-up well first. In fact, you'd probably be best served to image the hwole system first so you can start over from scratch if need be. Overall, it wasn't too bad. In fact, I don't remember any problems in my last sarge->sid upgrade. ymmv. A oh yeah, watch out for the X.org 7.0 stuff. review the list archives from the last couple weeks. A > -- > LostSon > > http://www.lostsonsvault.org > > > /\ > \ \ \__/ \__/ > \ \ (oo) (oo) > \_\/~~\_/~~\_ > _.-~===========~-._ > (___________________) > \_______/ > > I Want To Believe
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