Re: Wheezy to Stretch upgrade failure

[Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 11:10:58AM +0200, Erwan David wrote:
> Le 06/24/17 à 11:04, Andrew a écrit :
> > Ive tried to update a non GUI system from Wheezy to Stretch and its gone
> > horribly wrong.
> > 
> > Theres so many errors I cant even begin to fathom out what has gone
> > wrong and I think the only solution is going to be a clean install.
> > 
> > Would I have been wise to upgrade it to Jessie first?

> Upgrade from version N to version N+2 is always prone to errors. The
> only tested path is from N to N+1, thus it would have been wise to first
> upgrade into Jessie. Or, depending on your settings, configurations,
> services your computer provides even do a full install of stretch.

You can also segment an upgrade into two, more digestible
pieces.

apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade




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Joel Roth