Upgrading Debian

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on October 2, 2007 - 7:19am

This was tried on a completely empty installation. If it actually matters, you are advised to consult your nearest neighborhood GNU-Linux sysadmin.

And of course your first step would be to back up everything.

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Back everything up, including a list of installed packages. First two commands if necessary:

cd / mkdir backup dpkg --get-selections > /backup/installed-software.log

dpkg --set-selections < /backup/installed-software.log dselect

Check what you have now:

cat /etc/debian_version <blockquote>4.0</blockquote>

Kernel:

uname -mrs <blockquote>Linux 2.6.18-5-xen-686 i686</blockquote>

Update the package list:
apt-get update

That gives a good bunch of output.

apt-get dist-upgrade

If all is well...

reboot

Searched words:

update Debian to latest version

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