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Re: Debian 7.3 is out

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Post by rhizome »

andrewaylett wrote: post #9
rhizome wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It truly confuses me that the upgrade instructions are so obfuscated, bordering on unfindable. Can someone point me to the chapter where an upgrade from 7.1 to this version is covered? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/in...

If you're already on a 7.x install (codename 'wheezy') then per http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20131214 it suffices to enable the updates repository (which I believe is the default) and run `apt-get upgrade`. The release notes you linked to are for the original 7.0 release. I think that most people will pretty much ignore that there's a point release and continue to update their systems regularly -- unless you're in…

The release notes you linked to are for the original 7.0 release.

The notes I linked are the ones linked from the post page on where the upgrade instructions can be found.

Re: Debian 7.3 is out

#13

Post by plg »

Can anyone point me to a step by step for how to get debian running on a macbook air? I've googled it and tried at least 4 different approaches, to no avail. I'm talking about a macbookair3,1 (late 2010 11").

Re: Debian 7.3 is out

#14

Post by voltagex_ »

plg wrote: post #13

Can anyone point me to a step by step for how to get debian running on a macbook air? I've googled it and tried at least 4 different approaches, to no avail. I'm talking about a macbookair3,1 (late 2010 11").

Where are you getting stuck?

Re: Debian 7.3 is out

#15

Post by plg »

voltagex_ wrote: post #14
plg wrote: post #13

Can anyone point me to a step by step for how to get debian running on a macbook air? I've googled it and tried at least 4 different approaches, to no avail. I'm talking about a macbookair3,1 (late 2010 11").

Where are you getting stuck?

Can't boot from a USB nor from the Debian installer cd (using USB CDROM drive)

Re: Debian 7.3 is out

#16

Post by rhizome »

null_ptr wrote: post #7
rhizome wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It truly confuses me that the upgrade instructions are so obfuscated, bordering on unfindable. Can someone point me to the chapter where an upgrade from 7.1 to this version is covered? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/in...

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade There's nothing special about upgrading Debian between point releases.

There's nothing special...except for the actual commands. Empathize with the newbie.

Re: Debian 7.3 is out

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Post by guipsp »

jlgaddis wrote: post #8
rhizome wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It truly confuses me that the upgrade instructions are so obfuscated, bordering on unfindable. Can someone point me to the chapter where an upgrade from 7.1 to this version is covered? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/in...

As others have mentioned: $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade In this particular case, from 7.1 to 7.3, "dist-upgrade" is not needed (you aren't upgrading from one distribution to another (e.g. from 6 to 7)).

Well, sometimes you need to dist-upgrade, even when not switching distros.

Re: Debian 7.3 is out

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Post by voltagex_ »

puppetmaster3 wrote: post #17
plg wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't boot from a USB nor from the Debian installer cd (using USB CDROM drive)

you have to use 64 bit and know a bit about uefi. (or give up and do lubuntu)

Are Macs different enough that the amd64 Debian installer won't boot on it?
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