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Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian

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On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 10:28:57AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
>I've run across someone who says her machine is running Debian
>oldoldoldstable or maybe even oldoldoldoldstable, and who consequently
>can't upgrade to newer Debian.

It's easier to say the code name than oldoldoldoldodlodlsdosdld.

>I seem to recall that there *is* a way to do step-wise upgrades of such
>old systems, i.e. upgrading from oldoldoldoldstable to oldoldoldstable,
>then to oldoldstable, then to oldstable, then to stable. However, I'm
>stumped as to how to actually get started on doing that.

The order of the releases is documented at 
https://www.debian.org/releases/

Basically, adjust the sources.list to point to each one in oder, and do 
the upgrades. Check the release notes for each upgrade to see if special 
steps are necessary.

>The last few steps of this are straightforward; oldoldstable is still
>available in the repos, as far as I'm aware. The first ones are more of
>a problem; if I understand matters correctly, anything prior to
>oldoldstable is removed from the live repos, although its .deb files are
>still maintained on e.g. snapshot.debian.org. (Which doesn't really
>suffice for the equivalent of a dist-upgrade, because you'd have to
>manually download all the correct .debs by hand and then install them
>with dpkg.)

Use archive.debian.org instead of ftp.debian.org or whatever for very 
old releases.

Mike Stone

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Upgrading from very-old Debian The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-11-28 16:30 +0100
  Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2017-11-28 16:40 +0100
    Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-11-28 17:00 +0100
      Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-11-28 17:10 +0100
    Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2017-11-28 18:10 +0100
    Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-11-29 10:10 +0100
      Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-11-29 20:00 +0100
      Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-11-29 20:10 +0100
        Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2017-11-30 21:20 +0100
        Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-12-01 15:30 +0100
          Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-12-01 22:00 +0100
            Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian (and xtoolwait) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-12-02 16:00 +0100
      Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-11-29 21:30 +0100
  Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-11-28 18:00 +0100
    Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-11-28 18:00 +0100
      Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-11-28 23:40 +0100
      Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Jan <jan@dwrox.net> - 2017-11-29 08:00 +0100
        Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Umarzuki Mochlis <umarzuki@gmail.com> - 2017-11-29 08:20 +0100
        Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com> - 2017-11-29 08:50 +0100
  Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-11-28 20:30 +0100
    Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com> - 2017-11-28 21:30 +0100

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