Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 04:54:17 +1300 cbannister@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 09:07:45AM -0500, songbird wrote:
> > because i keep a second bootable partition a
> > few versions back i am a bit more brave/stupid
> > at times and just do the usual routine:
> >
> > =====
> >
> > $ apt-get update
> > $ apt-get upgrade
> >
> > # and then see what is held back before doing the
>
> I suggest doing:
>
> apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs
>
> just before:
>
> > $ apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> See:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/10/msg00279.html
I'd read the "Upgrades from Debian 8 (Jessie)" section in the Stretch
Release Notes first. It's never as simple as changing to the new repos
and doing a dist-upgrade.
https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/release-notes/
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