Re: Recommended way to upgrade from Sarge to Etch

[David <davidpalmer@westnet.com.au>]

Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> Please excuse the dumb question, but:
>
> Is this still the recommended way to upgrade from Sarge to Etch?:
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
>
> That page makes it out like using aptitude is somehow better than apt-get. 
> I've never used aptitude, only apt-get, I'm quite comfortable with all the 
> apt-* tools. It apt-get dist-upgrade just as good?
>
> Thanks,
>
> 	JW
The aptitude interface -especially with the integrated 'help', is far 
from hard to get on top of, but how I used to do it is:

'aptget update'
'aptget upgrade'

Then change your sources list in /etc/apt/sources.list through an 
editor, then:

'aptget update'
'aptget -u dist-upgrade'

That should do it.
Regards,

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David Palmer
Linux User - #352034