I just did this from a fresh install of antiX-M8.5.
Make sure you have plenty of space on your root partition and a fast and reliable internet connection.

Good luck!

1. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list
- Comment out the Testing repos, uncomment the first 2 in the stable repos and change the word stable to squeeze
- Change all references to lenny to squeeze
- remove the goggles repo
- Do not enable the MEPIS repos.

2. Comment out halevt & in both /home/username/.fluxbox/startup and /home/username/.icewm/startup files.

3. Either remove wicd completely if you do not need it or create a user called demo by running the following in a root terminal.

# adduser demo

4. back up your important data, just in case.

5. apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

A fresh install upgraded 670 packages, removed 5 (ok), 88 newly installed. 454MB of archives downloaded, 190MB of additional space to be used.
You may see locale errors during the upgrade, but no need to worry.

6. Answer N (default) if asked if you want to accept maintainers version.

7. If the upgrade gives an error at end, try

#apt-get -f install

8. Remove unwanted cruft.

# apt-get autoremove
# deborphan | xargs apt-get -y remove
# COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l |grep ^rc |awk '{print $2} ' | xargs dpkg -P

9. Update inxi script with

inxi -U

10. Reboot

Anti,
Thank you very much for the simple to follow procedure.

Did it on first computer, smooth sailing...

Reboot, works, typing this post with new M8.5

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