upgrade from stable to testing

**Daan** · 03-02-2006

is it ok to add the testing respository to my sources.list and upgrade all packages?

doing a smart upgrade in synaptic would also remove gnome, gnome-desktop-environment and openoffice.org, it seems. i need those.

**jonantice** · 03-02-2006

I don't know how ok it is but I did it just the other day. I just used commandline apt-get though. Just add testing to your sources.list file source entries then run

Code:

apt-get update
apt-get -u dist-upgrade

The -u option let's you look at what will change.
I'm not an expert so do this at your own risk. You might want to read
/http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-dist-upgrade
first so you understand exactly what you're doing. Good Luck!

**S. M. Ibrahim** · 03-02-2006

Originally Posted by Daan

is it ok to add the testing respository to my sources.list and upgrade all packages?

doing a smart upgrade in synaptic would also remove gnome, gnome-desktop-environment and openoffice.org, it seems. i need those.

Yep, you need to edit the source list to testing .
then run

Code:

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

Btw, in testing there should not any security update mirror. So remove it.

**Zelmo** · 03-02-2006

Don't worry about gnome and gnome-desktop-environment being removed. Those are metapackages that you can select when you want to install Gnome; all they do is select all the other packages that Gnome normally entails. If any of those other packages get removed, then the metapackage also gets taken off the list.

**Daan** · 03-03-2006

unfortunately, i can not login anymore after the dist-upgrade. when i came to my pc this morning after letting it upgrade this night, the screensaver would not accept my password. i changed to the console, there my password was accepted, and i restarted my computer. after the restart, my password is not accepted at the console too.

any ideas?

**Daan** · 03-03-2006

changing the password fixed this.

next problem is that startx tells me /etc/X11/X is not executable. i found out that the file this X links to (/usr/bin/X11/XFree86) does not exist. my guess is it should link to /usr/bin/X11/Xfree86/Xorg. that does exist... how do i do this?

**Daan** · 03-03-2006

doing that did not help...

**Daan** · 03-03-2006

i forgot to remove the security mirror from my sources.list. maybe this caused my problems? vim is not on my system anymore strangely...

**Daan** · 03-03-2006

i did apt-get upgrade again and it told me to run dpkg --configure -a. i was asked wether i wanted xfree or xorg (like i was before), this time i chose xfree. the problem persists as described above, though...

**Daan** · 03-03-2006

ok. so i made X point to /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg. now X will start, however, it quickly stops and gives lots of errors.

*sigh*

i guess i'll just have to reinstall everything...

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