Comments on How To Upgrade Debian Etch To Lenny

I would agree with most of this but not all.

I find aptitude a bit too smart and prefer apt-get.

After editing /etc/apt/sources.list (this can be the first step

after backing up, in my opinion)

I would suggest

# apt-get -dy dist-upgrade

 to get all the new packages.

Then

# apt-get upgrade

which would upgrade all packages that do NOT

require new packages or removals

(you missed the word not).

Then the rest.

sed -i s/etch/stable/g /etc/apt/sources.list

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

Thanks, I have corrected that typo :)

Hi you missed install on the kernel install instruction - i.e.:

aptitude install linux-image-2.6-686

Debian Lenny release notes has a detailed upgrade guide. You should link it I think.

http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/releasenotes

Dunno how it's on other distribs, but on my arm based box, aptitude was autoremoved during:

aptitude update && aptitude install apt && aptitude install aptitude

so the last command failed.

I fixed it by executing

apt-get install aptitude

afterwards and then continued this HowTo.
It's doing the safe-upgrade now, looks okay: thanks for article ;)