Re: how to update Debian OS properly
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 26 May 2012 12:43:45 you wrote:
>> > I prefer to use aptitude full-upgrade routinely - but I have the code
>> > name in my sources.list, not stable or testing. I then change the code
>> > name when I want to get the more recent version. So, Squeeze not stable,
>> > Muhammad. you could get in quite a mess at the changeover point from
>> > Squeeze to Wheezy if you have stable in your sources.list, as several
>> > people have pointed out.
>>
>> 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'm afraid that I don't understand you. Why should you have a system crash?
>I'm afraid that I don't understand you. Why should you >have a system crash?
i know my question regarding comparing Windows and Linux a bit
annoying, but i had bad experiences with upgrading windows from one
version to another one. and in linux i just run the command "ap-get
upgrade" and after few minutes i was working in wheezy regardless of
sid or testing (so the simplicity of the process left me very
confuse). i know how patches and service packs in
windows can turn people's life to nightmare. actually i am the only
resource in system and network in my company and i am the only one who
is motivating management to shift to linux. so i am a bit scared.
because this is new world to me.
however i learn too much from this thread and from this mailing list.
i am thankful to everyone for sharing your views/thoughts/suggestions
. i know remaining confusions will be clears after getting use to
with linux.
Thanks
> And what are you trying to achieve?
>
> Always use code names, and incidentally Sid is the code-name for unstable, a
> code-name which never changes.
>
> So choose which you want. From the sound of things you want Squeeze. Install
> Squeeze. Check that Squeeze is in your sources.list, and only Squeeze at
> this stage. No mention of stable or anything else. Update Squeeze.
> (aptitude update followed by aptitude full-upgrade or aptitude safe-upgrade.)
> From then on you will only basically get security updates, though there are
> periodic point releases for Squeeze to iron out some remaining bugs etc.
>
> For now, and while you bed down with Debian/Linux, simply ignore all mentions
> of Wheezy, stable, Sid, unstable, testing etc. Time enough to come to terms
> with those when you understand fully what is going on or when Wheezy has
> become Stable and Squeeze is Old Stable.
>
> apt is now preferred to aptitude by many on this list, but I am more familiar
> with aptitude, and might have got the commands slightly wrong had I attempted
> to give you them. (I did last time that I did so.) But for what you are
> doing now, either is fine, and when it comes to upgrading to a new release,
> the release notes will tell you which to use.
>
> But above all, keep things simple for now. And when you ask a question, try
> to express it without reference to Windows. Many of us do not use Windows,
> and in my case I have not done so since Windows 98, which I don't remember
> very well.
>
> HTH
> Lisi
>
>
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