Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:17:29 -0500
Ken Heard <ken@heard.name> wrote:
> I had so many untold miseries upgrading from sarge to etch that I
> promised myself never to upgrade again -- only to do a completely fresh
> installation.
>
> - From this thread I now see three *-upgrade commands mentioned for
> aptitude: dist-upgrade, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade. Only
> dist-upgrade is mentioned in the aptitude man page and in Debian
> Reference. Does any Debian documentation refer to these other two
> commands? (I could not find any.) If not, why not?
>
> Regards, Ken Heard
aptitude install aptitude-doc-en
there's several references there for safe-upgrade.
I did a "man aptitude" and safe-upgrade is listed there.
(after the man page opened I pressed the / key and searched...)
I also from a terminal issued this command (after changing to /usr/share/doc
# grep -Harn safe-upgrade *
and I got a couple screens full of references.
I didn't go after the other one.
I kinda thought they were 'new' to me as well. So I began reading. what dawned
on me is that I had seen those words before in the GUI 'update-mgr' or
whatever it's name is in gnome... I use it now to check the change logs...
keep in mind this is already a 'Lenny' box.
# cat /etc/issue.net
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
ii aptitude 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 terminal-based package manager
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