On 09/13/2015 10:57 AM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one > version of Debian to other without losing data or without > formatiing the partition, simply as Ubuntu does. An earlier mail in > this mailing list stated to reboot from iso image and install in > the same old traditional way. This Facebook post states something > else, and I couldn't make sure what to do without bricking up my > hard configured system. > https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifewithdebian/permalink/10153149941663977/ What > I usually do is to update /etc/apt/sources to the version I want to upgrade to. Then I log out from X and log on to the console. # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade # apt-get dist-upgrade Then reboot. This has only failed when I have tried to upgrade to broken "testing" versions. As always, make a backup before you start :) Jarle
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