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Re: Upgrading Debian

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On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote:

> On Monday 14 September 2015 05:00:01 Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Sunday 13 September 2015 16:13:19 Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
> > > > > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one
> > > > > version of Debian to other without losing data or without
> > > > > formatiing the partition, simply as Ubuntu does.
> 
> > > >
> > > > I always found it best to follow Debian's instructions in the
> > > > Release Notes and/or Installation Instructions of the version
> > > > you want to upgrade to. AND back up your data before doing
> > > > anything..
> > > >
> > > > Many times, there's more involved than just simply apt-get
> > > > update, apt-get upgrade, etc.
> > > >
> > > > B
> > >
> > > He doesn't want to upgrade from one version to another.  He just
> > > wants to do a normal upgrade in Jessie, that because of where we
> > > are now, and when he last upgraded, will take it from 8.1 to 8.2.
> >
> > Oh.  But that's what he said.  Others seemed to misunderstand,
> > too.  In any case, if he had read the instructions . . .
> >
> > What is it with people and instructions?
> 
> I know.  It took me a while to work out what he actually wanted with
> all the drama. ;-)  People who come from Ubuntu don't understand
> about point releases.  Since I don't know Ubuntu, I don't know what
> it is that they are thinking of.

Different terminology.  With most distros "update" means what
"upgrade" does with Debian.  And "upgrade" means "dist-upgrade."

Yes, Ubuntu is a different beast.   The only experience I have with
it is from its debut release years ago. Hated it so much, I uninstalled
it a week later and never tried it again.  I don't know why people love
it so much.  To each, his own, I guess.

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Upgrading Debian Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2015-09-13 10:00 +0200
  Re: Upgrading Debian Jarle Aase <jgaa@jgaa.com> - 2015-09-13 10:20 +0200
    Re: Upgrading Debian pascalv@sdf.lonestar.org - 2015-09-13 11:30 +0200
      Re: Upgrading Debian <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-09-13 14:40 +0200
    Re: Upgrading Debian Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-09-14 15:10 +0200
      Re: Upgrading Debian Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 15:20 +0200
  Re: Upgrading Debian Diogene Laerce <me_buss777@yahoo.fr> - 2015-09-13 10:20 +0200
  Re: Upgrading Debian Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 12:50 +0200
  Re: Upgrading Debian Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 17:20 +0200
    Re: Upgrading Debian Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 18:10 +0200
      Re: Upgrading Debian Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 06:10 +0200
        Re: Upgrading Debian Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 11:40 +0200
          Re: Upgrading Debian Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 18:20 +0200
          Re: Upgrading Debian Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2015-09-15 08:40 +0200
  Re: Upgrading Debian David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-09-14 16:50 +0200

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