[TriLUG] Upgrade Debian 7 to 8

[Wes Garrison via TriLUG]

I've upgraded our production server incrementally from Debian Lenny
(version 5) to Jessie (version 8) using apt-get dist-upgrade.

If you have installed a lot of .deb packages manually, use your own Perl,
or other off-the-beaten-path things, it may not be so smooth, but they've
really worked hard to make it a stress-free process.

edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change 'wheezy' to 'jessie'

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

reboot

This makes me wonder why I have to reboot my Windows 10 machine every 2
weeks to apply updates.

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Wesley S. Garrison
Network Engineer
Xitech Communications, Inc.
phone:  (919) 260-0803
fax:       (919) 932-5051
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On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Aaron Morrison via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org
> wrote:

>
> > On Sep 8, 2016, at 16:09, Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Ken MacKenzie <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:
> >> When you switch debian versions you will need to do dist-upgrade.  Also
> >> prepare for it to take a good while.
> >      I do wish it was this easy in RedHat and cousins.
>
> In the FWIW category:
>
> It's just as easy (in theory). RHEL now supports upgrades[1] (with some
> limits) and Fedora has had it as well via dnf[2] (and fedup before that)
> for quite a while now.
>
> I have a system that has been upgraded to every version from F17 to F24. I
> still fresh install on the systems I really care about though.
>
> --am
>
> [1] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/637583
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading
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