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Re: Debian 7.3 is out

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Post by rhizome »

jlgaddis wrote: post #2

Better link with more info: http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20131214

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...

Re: Debian 7.3 is out

#4

Post by bpeebles »

rhizome wrote: post #3
jlgaddis wrote: post #2

Better link with more info: http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20131214

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...

Upgrading from any Debian 7 upgrade should just be:

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade

Re: Debian 7.3 is out

#5

Post by juliocc »

rhizome wrote: post #3
jlgaddis wrote: post #2

Better link with more info: http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20131214

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...

Just doing apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade should be enough. You have to be careful, do backups and all that, but that's basically all you need to do.

Re: Debian 7.3 is out

#6

Post by [deleted] »

rhizome wrote: post #3
jlgaddis wrote: post #2

Better link with more info: http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20131214

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...

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Re: Debian 7.3 is out

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Post by null_ptr »

rhizome wrote: post #3
jlgaddis wrote: post #2

Better link with more info: http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20131214

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.

Re: Debian 7.3 is out

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Post by jlgaddis »

rhizome wrote: post #3
jlgaddis wrote: post #2

Better link with more info: http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20131214

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)).

Re: Debian 7.3 is out

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Post by andrewaylett »

rhizome wrote: post #3
jlgaddis wrote: post #2

Better link with more info: http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20131214

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 installing a large number of systems or have particular requirements there seems little point in paying it specific attention.

Re: Debian 7.3 is out

#10

Post by asuffield »

bpeebles wrote: post #4
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...

Upgrading from any Debian 7 upgrade should just be: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade

You don't need that upgrade. The only difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade is that dist-upgrade can add and remove packages, while upgrade will decline to make any upgrades that would require this. As such, dist-upgrade is almost always the one you meant.
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