Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?
On Tue 10 Feb 2015 at 14:45:43 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10 2015,Reco wrote:
>
> > Since you're going to the trouble of pre-downloading packages
> > for dist-upgrade, you might as well pre-download all of them:
> >
> > apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade
> > apt-get update
> > apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> I don't understand, what does the update between the upgrades give me
> in the command sequence above?
You really should read the release notes. :)
In some cases, doing the full upgrade (as described below)
directly might remove large numbers of packages that you
will want to keep. We therefore recommend a two-part upgrade
process: first a minimal upgrade to overcome these conflicts,
then a full upgrade as described in Section 4.4.6, “Upgrading
the system”.
To do this, first run:
# apt-get upgrade
This has the effect of upgrading those packages which can be
upgraded without requiring any other packages to be removed
or installed.
> > - From the running X session, unless you're know what you're doing.
>
> Why? Then how do I upgrade? I'm usually in the KDE desktop terminal
> when I try all this. If I'm supposed to do without X, how do I go to
> terminal only login?
Log out of KDE. CTRL+ALT+F1. Then 'service kdm stop'.
Some more reading for opinions on a dist-upgrade within X:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/06/msg02261.html
The issue is arguable but for a major step like going from Wheezy to
Jessie you have nothing to lose.
Some people also recommend checking progress and the state of the system
by doing a reboot between an upgrade and a dist-upgrade.
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