[plug] Question about upgrading from Debian 4.0 to 5.0

[Lucas van Staden]

I would agree.

I have done quite a few upgrades like that, and well, some worked fine, 
some seemed to work fine, to find later some packages are broken, and 
some just plain failed.
I reckon it all depends on what is installed.
Some packages upgrade well, others don't.

Also, I would suggest you rather use (and for daily usage) aptitude 
rather that apt-get.
Aptitude has better dependency checking, and a lot of other additional 
features that apt-get does not.
You can use it just like apt-get. I have never used it's gui interface

http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkgtools.en.html (see 8.1.3)

-Lucas


Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> writes:
>
>   
>> I am thinking about upgrading my Debian installation, from 4.0 to Debian
>> 5.0, on this system. On my laptop, I had done a clean installation of Debian
>> 5.0.
>>
>> To do the upgrade, I am looking at doing it by just changing the URL's in
>> the sources.list file, from etch to lenny, and then doing an apt-get update
>> followed by apt-get dist-upgrade.
>>     
>
> Don't do that.
>
>   
>> Has anyone else done it this way, and, has it caused (or, is it likely to
>> cause) any problems?
>>     
>
> Yes.  You might get lucky, but it *HAS* caused some problems for some people.
>
> What you should do, instead, is read the Debian release notes.
>
> They include detailed instructions on how to perform the upgrade that work
> around any issues found to date, as well as ensuring that you are aware of
> anything specific you should check on the way.
>
> Regards,
>         Daniel
>