Re: updating squeeze to wheezy

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Lindsay" <jclindsay@kw.igs.net>
> 
> Greeting
> 
> I have been trying to update my Debian 6 (squeeze) to Debian 7 (wheezy).
> I have been reading the following URLs and trying to make sense of them
> with respect to upgrading.
> 
<snip>
> 
> Obviously it failed to upgrade to wheezy. Any hints/suggestions/hep
> would be appreciated.
> 

The main steps are:

1) upgrade your Squeeze system (I'm not sure if Squeeze sources are still available, so you may have to skip this).  This includes:
  1a) apt-get update
  1b) apt-get upgrade
  1c) apt-get dist-upgrade (just in case any packages were held back in step 1b)
2) edit sources.list to remove squeeze sources and add wheezy sources.
3) apt-get update
4) apt-get upgrade
5) apt-get dist-upgrade

Not until you do step 5 do you have a Wheezy system.  I suspect you missed this step.  Otherwise maybe you have something preventing the upgrade in apt.conf or your apt preferences files.

-Rob