Network upgrade of the APT system and some core packages to the Woody versions
can be done as follows after including stable sources in the
/etc/apt/sources.list
if you still run Potato.
# apt-get update # apt-get install libc6 perl libdb2 debconf # apt-get install apt apt-utils dselect dpkg
Tracking the testing flavor of Debian has a side effect of providing very slow security fixes. So be warned.
Network upgrade to testing can be done as follows (run the script
go-woody
to do this in one command):
Empty the existing sources.list
file:
# cd /etc/apt # cp -f sources.list sources.old # :>sources.list
Get a clean list of repositories, for stable:
# cd / # apt-setup noprobe ... select repositories, accessed with HTTP or FTP methods
Add the testing section to this new list. The deb-src lines are commented out.
# cd /etc/apt # grep -e "^deb " sources.list >sources.deb # grep -e "^deb-" sources.list >sources.src # sed -e "s/stable/testing/" sources.deb \ >>sources.list # sed -e "s/stable/testing/" sources.src | \ sed -e "s/^deb-/#deb-/" >>sources.list # apt-get update # apt-get install apt apt-utils # cat >preferences <<EOF Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 50 EOF
Optionally, add the "unstable" section of the archives.
# sed -e "s/stable/unstable/" sources.deb \ >>sources.list # sed -e "s/stable/unstable/" sources.src | \ sed -e "s/^deb-/#deb-/" >>sources.list
See Basics of Debian package
management, Section 3.2 for the art of tuning
/etc/apt/sources.list
and /etc/apt/preferences
.
Now you can update and upgrade, using one of the methods in the next section.
After properly setting up /etc/apt/sources.list
and
/etc/apt/preferences
files, the system can be upgraded to
testing. See Debian package
management, Chapter 3 for the basics, and see APT upgrade troubleshooting, Section
3.3.2 if you encounter problems.
dselect
If a system has many packages which include -dev packages, etc.,
the following method using dselect
is recommended for fine-grained
package control.
# dselect update # always do this before upgrade # dselect select # select additional packages
All your current packages will be selected when dselect
starts.
dselect
may prompt you with additional packages based on
depends, suggests, and recommends. If
you do not want to add any packages, just type Q to exit
dselect
again.
# dselect install
You will have to answer some package configuration questions during this part
of the process, so have your notes ready and allow some time for this part.
See dselect
, Section
3.2.3.
Use dselect
. It always works :) If you need to
upgrade without dselect
after Woody, consider
aptitude
and other options.
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