topic title: Upgrading from 8.2 to 8.5
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bdmc
Joined: 12 Oct 2010
#1
I started to ask this question as part of another thread, but that went away from upgrading and into fixing the outstanding issues.


However, now I am ready to ask this again.

What sources.list changes do I need to make and what packages do I need to change to upgrade a"current" 8.2 system to 8.5?


Thanks,
Brian
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#2
The Release Notes also contain instructions for users who are upgrading from prior releases

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/releasenotes"
linktext was:"http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/releasenotes"
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Should help.
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bdmc
Joined: 12 Oct 2010
#3
I'm confused. What do Debian release notes have to do with antiX?


B
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#4
AntiX is based on Debian.
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bdmc
Joined: 12 Oct 2010
#5
Agreed, but I am interested in the specific changes that I need to make to upgrade from one antiX to another.

I made the mistake of allowing Debian to take over this machine in the past few days and completely lost any antiX flavour, and have just had to rebuild from scratch.
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#6
I don't know specific steps that you want. Never had to upgrade the way you want to.
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bdmc
Joined: 12 Oct 2010
#7
Unfortunately, this machine won't read any disks that I make by myself, but is perfectly happy reading commercial disks, so I have had to start with a commercial disk that has 8.2 on it, but I would like to upgrade.

Possibly aptitude dist-upgrade ( apt dist-upgrade ) might do the trick, but I suspect that I need to get the repositories right first.

B
anticapitalista
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Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#8
There is a thread somewhere here that details how to upgrade 8.2 to 8.5, but I can't find it at the moment.

It is not a simple apt-get dist-upgrade unfortunately. A new udev gets updated and that needs a newer kernel than in 8.2. The 2.6.32 or later kernels from MEPIS or liquorix should be ok.

Found it:
upgrade-script-from-8-2-t2467.html

But also look at
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://antix.mepis.com/index.php/Main_Page"
linktext was:"http://antix.mepis.com/index.php/Main_Page"
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known issues.

This will not turn your antiX-M8.2 into an exact antiX-M8.5 though.