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Re: [LUG] Upgrading Debian

 

On 11/04/07, Peter Lloyd-Jones <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am not sure I followed this post correctly.  I updated by burning a new CD.
> (And had some minor problems as I was a bit rash as it was only my back up
> machine and I had backed IT up). But I think I am being told I just had to
> alter my repositories and let the machine take the strain?

Yeah I think that's right, assuming you were changing from Sarge (?)
to Etch you would only have needed to change all sarge refferrences in
/etc/apt/sources.list to etch and then run:

su -c "apt-get dist-upgrade"

Hope it's helpful for the future :D

Jon
>
> Peter
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