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  1. 05-07-2009 #1
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    Talking upgrading sarge

    What do I need to put in apt or the deb package manager for sources to upgrade sarge. I am new at this and nothing seems to work.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dvdljns View Post
    What do I need to put in apt or the deb package manager for sources to upgrade sarge. I am new at this and nothing seems to work.
    You need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list, and replace all instances of "sarge" with "etch", then
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    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
    If you want to get to the current stable release, Lenny, do the same thing again replacing "etch" with "lenny".

    For the amount of packages you'll be downloading, and the risk of breakage upgrading, it would be much better to download Lenny and do a fresh install.
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    Quote Originally Posted by reed9 View Post
    You need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list, and replace all instances of "sarge" with "etch", then
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    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
    If you want to get to the current stable release, Lenny, do the same thing again replacing "etch" with "lenny".

    For the amount of packages you'll be downloading, and the risk of breakage upgrading, it would be much better to download Lenny and do a fresh install.
    Yea I allready found out. You can not just jump to 10.3 or higher with yast. Oh well I will learn on 10.0 then jump up when I can config my own system.
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    Well, I'm very confused now. You're using openSuse? I thought you were trying to upgrade Debian Sarge.
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    i dont even think open suse uses apt??????? i confused too.
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    And what's with YaST on Debian???
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    I guess I am confused. Sorry about this I started with one os then changed. I posted the last answer in the wrong thread.
    I started with a install of debian called knoppix then could not boot root so then I looked at debian and could not find the cd iso images to download and do not have a dvd so switched to suse 10.0. I guess I got confused when posting. So Sorry.
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    Hi, dvdljns

    To prevent any further confusion, I'm going to lock this thread.

    Don't hesitate to start a new thread in the correct forum with any issues that you are still experiencing.
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