Re: Confused about dist-upgrade
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu 23 Jan 2014 at 17:52:00 -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote:
>>
>> At any rate, to move from, say, squeeze, to wheezy, my approach
>> would be to edit my sources.list, replacing all instances of
>> "squeeze" with "wheezy", and then running
>>
>> # apt-get update
>> # apt-get dist-upgrade
>>
>> That as far as memory serves -- which is getting shakier and shakier
>> with the advance of years :-( -- is what has worked in the past.
>
> The recommended way is
>
> apt-get update
> upgrade kernel
> reboot
> upgrade packages associated with any critical services
> apt-get dist-upgrade
>From memory, this isn't the recommended way for upgrades to Lenny,
Squeeze, or Wheezy.
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