Re: Upgrade to 'testing"

[Jacob Anawalt]

Jianan Huang wrote:

Hi folks,

I am now running 'stable' which I installed from a CDROM created 
online. Now I intend to upgrade to 'testing'. What's the easiest way 
to go about it? Can I upgrade online by downloading some approriate 
packages or do I have to create a 'testing' CDROM?

For me, this is right at the top of why Debian is so cool.

1) Modify your /etc/apt/sources.list to point to testing sources on the 
internet. You may as well comment out the security.debian.org source if 
you have it. They aren't available in testing:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib 
non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main 
contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

2) apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-dist-upgrade
The second step may be better done with aptitude if you already have 
that installed.

Once that finishes up, you're running testing.

Before you do this upgrade, I suggest you consider _why_ you want to 
upgrade and search through the debian-user list. There is always a lot 
of discussion with people asking if they should do stable, testing or 
unstable.

The start of a couple of the most recent threads
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200309/msg01367.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200309/msg00903.html
:
Jacob

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