Re: how to update Debian OS properly
On Sat, 26 May 2012 16:43:45 +0500
Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sirtcp@gmail.com> wrote:
> if i use Squeeze (the code name) instead stable, sid or anything.
> should i not to worry about system crash? is it what people here mean
> to say (who support code name "squeeze" ) that if i "apt-get
> upgrade/full-upgrade/safe-upgrade" will not crash my system if using
> squeeze. because what i am worried about here is system crash.
I can see you are getting confused; best practice suggests using the stable dist by name.(Currently Squeeze)
When you want to upgrade to the next stable version, replace squeeze with wheezy, in your /etc/apt/sources.list.
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My sources.list on a clean installation of Debian Squeeze 6.0.5, with the addition of non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
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keith <km3952@gmail.com>
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