Re: etch --> testing
On 22/01/2008, charlie derr <cderr@simons-rock.edu> wrote:
> An associate is not quite as avid a linux user as I am (though he's been at it at least as long). He's got a machine that's
> running etch that he uses as a general all-purpose workstation desktop (gnome, icedove, iceweasel, ooo, emacs, cups, and a bunch
> more often-used apps). He's really eager to upgrade from etch to something newer. So I thought I'd ask here about any possible
> pitfalls, or suggestions of how best to get him to a semi-stable bunch of packages from testing/lenny. For that matter is there
> any information about when a lenny freeze might happen? (so that I can help him time a in switch his /etc/apt/sources.list back
> from testing to lenny so that he can avoid shooting himself in the foot later)
>
> Anyhow, if I were going to do this without anyone else's input (go from etch to testing), here's the way I'd attempt it on my own
> machine:
>
> aptitude update; aptitude upgrade // to make sure etch is current
> change /etc/apt/sources.list by applying s/etch/testing/
> aptitude update
> aptitude install aptitude
> aptitude install apt-listbugs
> aptitude safe-upgrade (if that's available in the aptitude in testing right now)
>
>
> thanks much in advance for any suggestions,
> ~c
>
Would http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php help?
You'd get the benefit of a mostly stable installation but be able to
get later versions of some software from there.
Instructions at http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions
Regards
L.
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